A simple supplement of seaweed might just be part of the answer to climate change, but people, particularly Australians, appear poised to make money off it.
of the methane released into the atmosphere — whether it comes from the animals’ decomposing manure, or from what are known as “cow burps.”
Ermias Kebreab, a professor at UC Davis, has studied how seaweed may be used to cut livestock’s polluting methane emissions. His research has found that as little as 3 ounces of seaweed added to feed each day reduced the animals’ methane emissions by 82 percent., “it completely blew my mind and I didn't even believe when I saw the results at first.”
“The race is on, I suppose, to get the world’s first commercial supply,” Steve Meller, an Australian-American businessman in Australia, toldPlanted seaweed farms have grown by nearly 75 percent in the past decade, thereported. There are now such farms in places like Maine, Australia, and the North Sea.
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