About 15 students are here to learn how to identify and harvest seaweed. Foraging has grown into a movement over the last few years, including from your local ocean where it's now peak seaweed season.

But even 0.1% of the ocean’s surface is still a lot of seaweed. The mass can be seen in satellite images taken from space (below). A satellite-based Sargassum map, March 8-14, 2023.

While Oman is yet to enter the global seaweed market in a significant way, its waters host more than 400 species of benthic ...

Seaweed might be the greatest untapped resource we have on this planet. It can be a nutritious food, an alternative to plastic, restore our oceans and could even help tackle climate change. But ...

Since 2011, the seaweed’s geographic area has massively expanded. While the sargassum belt is now about 5,000 miles long, it isn’t “a continuous blanket of seaweed,” Hu said.