Newsletter thenarwhal.ca Blue carbon: the climate change solution you’ve probably never heard of Coastal ecosystems like salt marshes sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, but have been whittled away over the decades.
Politics www.scientificamerican.com Could our energy come from giant seaweed farms in the ocean? A U.S. agency is funding projects to help create a bioenergy industry based on macroalgae.
Resilience crosscut.com Could seaweed be Washington's next cash crop? With Washington's natural kelp beds declining, farms could fill an ecological niche and serve an emergent market. But barriers to entry remain high.
Impacts South Florida beaches see a surge in seaweed Sargassum, a type of marine algae, is washing up en masse on Caribbean beaches, closing them down to the public. The same sargassum is here in Miami, lining Miami beaches.
