Indian researchers and a Bengaluru startup are trying to turn fast-growing seaweed into biofuel, creating a potential new source of energy that doesn’t need farmland to grow. India imports most of the ...

Sugar cane and corn may soon be sharing the biofuel spotlight with a new contender: seaweed. A new breakthrough to break down sugars in seaweed may make the abundant marine algae central to replacing ...

Rum and Sargassum, a startup in Barbados in the Caribbean islands, is turning rum waste from distilleries and seaweed washed off onto the shores to produce bio-compressed natural gas to fuel cars. The ...

Deep sea research is taking place over 1,500 miles from the coastline. At South Dakota Mines, researchers have one big question – how can we turn seaweed into jet fuel? It is a complicated process ...

Over the past 15 years, Mexico has faced a severe seaweed problem, with vast quantities of a brown seaweed known as sargassum washing up on beaches along the Caribbean coast and hitting the tourism ...