OF AMERICANS. THE LOUISIANA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER APPROVES STATE FARM’S REQUEST TO LOWER AUTO INSURANCE RATES. STATE FARM’S AUTO RATE WILL NOW BE 5.9% LOWER FOR MORE THAN A MILLION POLICYHOLDERS, ...

A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By analyzing farm design, weather, vessel types, and processing methods, it ...

Farming kelp is an expensive endeavor, in some scenarios costing about $2,618 per metric ton. But a new tool developed in Maine could help trim that cost to $383. Researchers at Kelson Marine Co. in ...

Kelson Marine and collaborators sample kelp grown on an open-ocean seaweed farm. Farming kelp to sell as food, beauty products, fertilizer additives and other goods is a growing industry in Maine, but ...

Sonoma State University kelp researcher Rachael Karm holds up a growing blade of bull kelp at the UC Davis Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, Calif. (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News) BODEGA BAY, Calif. (CN) ...

State Farm, Florida's third-largest auto insurer, is reducing rates by an average of 10% for its policyholders. This reduction, combined with previous cuts, amounts to a total of $1 billion in savings ...

State Farm is getting in on Florida’s auto insurance rate-cutting action. In a news release on Thursday, State Farm said its latest rate cut would bring down premiums for its customers by an average ...

More than 10 years after unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific Ocean killed off Northern California’s aquatic kelp forests, the region has still not recovered, reports David Helvarg, ...

New environmental DNA tools can accurately and inexpensively quantify kelp-derived biomass in sediments below commercial kelp farms, according to research recently published in PLOS One. The new study ...

Orcas off the west coast of North America are grooming each other with kelp, in a rare sighting of marine mammals manufacturing and using tools. For several years, scientists have been keenly ...

Three Cape Cod businessmen are finding out what kelp — seaweed to its friends — can do for them. Richard Curtiss, Carl Douglass, and Jamie Bassett hope a 50-acre "plot" of ocean off Harding Beach in ...