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What do the Cliffs of Dover, the pyramids of Giza and oil have in common? The answer is plankton, which is the “basis of life on the planet – it all started there”, in the words of Vincent Doumeizel, senior…

Coastwatch has published an awareness pamphlet (downloadable below as a pdf) about the alien invasive species Sargassum muticum or Japanese seaweed. The pamphlet, which was distributed at Sandycove on Dublin Bay on Monday (July 22), appeals to citizen scientists and…

The failure by State agency Údaras na Gaeltachta to disclose the price and terms of the sale of seaweed company Arramara Teo to Canadians has been criticised by former Gaeltacht minister Éamon Ó Cuív. As The Sunday Independent reports, Údaras…

Research to reduce the cost of offshore wind platform moorings and to reduce the environmental impact of composites for renewable energy devices feature among new Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) fellowships. A total of 15 awards have been announced by Minister…

Seaweed is central to a €1.4 million research project exploring opportunities to produce more effective and inexpensive food supplements. Researchers at University College Dublin (UCD) have been given the four-year award by Science Foundation Ireland for the project, which is…

Fish and chips and biodiversity, how seaweed can be a medicine, and Ireland’s underwater forests are among marine topics which will be discussed at the “Pint of Science” global science festival opening next week. The three-day event opens in 11…

Irish renewable energy developer Simply Blue has joined a North Sea consortium working on a commercial scale seaweed farm located within an offshore wind farm. The “North Sea Farm 1 Project” involves ten hectares of water off the Netherlands coast,…