A team of researchers on the Caribbean island of Barbados have been working to create a new sustainable fuel to power cars on the island. Instead of using carbon capture or recycled cooking oil, the ...

Rum and Sargassum, a startup in Barbados in the Caribbean islands, is turning rum waste from distilleries and seaweed washed off onto the shores to produce bio-compressed natural gas to fuel cars. The ...

Sugar cane and corn may soon be sharing the biofuel spotlight with a new contender: seaweed. A new breakthrough to break down sugars in seaweed may make the abundant marine algae central to replacing ...

Stinking mats of rotting seaweed are already starting to pile up on beaches across the Caribbean. These mega-blooms of slimy brown algae called sargassum were once seldom seen — but climate change and ...