KANAGAWA--In Japan, researchers are feeding vegetables to hungry sea urchins - a popular sushi ingredient - to try and stop them from eating dwindling stocks of ocean seaweed. The country is ...

Green algae include sea lettuce and sea grapes. Seaweed is a valuable source of ... Kombu, also known as kelp, is used in the Japanese stock called dashi, the base for miso soup.

YOKOHAMA (AFP): Seaweed has long been a staple food in Japan, but the chunky ... Sachiumi Heroes also provides kelp to an aquarium to feed sea turtles, and to a livestock farm where it is added ...

Initiatives to have carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed and captured in seaweed and seagrass are taking root across Japan, where the population ... to supply iron to the sea for the growth of “konbu ...