The Optimist Daily has long been a proponent of seaweed as a food source to help feed the world’s growing population, and because of its tremendous health benefits. It also has the potential to serve as a powerful tool to fight against climate collapse. A recent study … [Read more...] about How seaweed forests can be a massive tool against climate collapse
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Pink seaweed could fight climate change by stopping cows from burping methane
While carbon dioxide is typically painted as the bad boy of greenhouse gases, methane is roughly 30 times more potent as a heat-trapping gas. And one of the biggest sources of the gas comes from agriculture or, more specifically, from cow burps. In 2014 Australian scientists … [Read more...] about Pink seaweed could fight climate change by stopping cows from burping methane
These scientists are using seaweed extract to make human-like tissue
Throughout history, cultures around the globe have enjoyed the nutritional and medical merits of seaweed. In more modern times, these macroalgal plants’ diverse ecological properties have captured scientists’ attention. What makes seaweed so special is that it has special fibers … [Read more...] about These scientists are using seaweed extract to make human-like tissue
Seaweed is here to join the fight against plastic straw pollution
It hurts just writing this, but an estimated 8 million tons of plastic garbage that ends up in our oceans annually, plastic straws contribute a great deal to this. Thankfully, innovative ideas on how to deal with this growing issue keep on coming. The latest comes from a startup … [Read more...] about Seaweed is here to join the fight against plastic straw pollution
Evolution on a plate
Seaweed is one of the ocean's oldest, and most delicious, treasures. Elbrich Fennema | July/August 2010 issue To know where you’re going, you have to know where you’ve been. Of course, each of us has our own history, which has brought us to where we are today. But we also … [Read more...] about Evolution on a plate
