Last summer, two men shouted friendly greetings from golf carts as they zipped around a field-turned-parking lot, fetching farmers at pick-up trucks and dropping them in front of a barn. It was the ...
About 5 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, a vast swath of giant kelp—Macrocystis pyriferia, which can grow nearly 3 feet per day—sways just below the surface of one of the world’s ...