National Aug 11, 2020
Seaweed replaced with tropical coral as global warming hits Japanese waters
Fishers in Chiba Prefecture now struggling to catch seasonal fish as seawater temperatures rise.
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Feb 25, 2020
Billion-year-old Chinese seaweed is oldest green plant fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth. Researchers ...
Food & Drink | NATURE'S PANTRY Apr 29, 2017
Diving into the myriad ways to enjoy Japan's sea greens
by Nancy Singleton Hachisu
The seasonality of fruits, vegetables, nuts and fungi growing in the fields and mountains of Japan is fairly obvious to many of us who we are familiar with such places and foods. The seasonality of the sea, however, remains relatively unknown even among the most ...
National Sep 4, 2016
Seaweed farming, a sudden slimy success, needs greener rules, U.N. study finds
Seaweed farming needs tighter regulation to limit damage to the environment after booming into a $6.4 billion business with uses in everything from sushi to toothpaste, a United Nations study said Sunday. Led by China, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines, seaweed's surge in recent ...
Business Dec 9, 2015
Japan will more than double its quota for imports of South Korean nori to 2.7 billion sheets, the Fisheries Agency said Wednesday. The increase will take place in stages by fiscal 2025. It is the result of an agreement reached with the South Korean government ...
Reference | SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT Feb 19, 2013
by Alice Gordenker
Dear Alice, I was out for a walk with my camera the other day and came across a puzzling scene. I saw people putting what I thought were squares of dark paper onto easels in the sun, as if to dry. But when I went ...