SpamSlapper shares a report from The Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A company commercializing a CSIRO-developed, seaweed feed product, which slashes the amount of greenhouse gases cattle burp and fart into the atmosphere, has won a $1 million international prize for its work reshaping the food system. CSIRO-affiliated company Future Feed said it would use its Food Planet Prize winnings to create an…
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Slimy ships could slip through water more efficiently to save energy
Inspired by seaweed, physicists are exploring how mucus can reduce drag on ship hulls and help vessels cut through water more efficiently to save energy and fuel Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2254542-slimy-ships-could-slip-through-water-more-efficiently-to-save-energy/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Eating seaweed can genetically modify the bacteria in our guts
The gut bacteria in some people have acquired genes for digesting seaweed fibres in a transfer from marine bacteria. We don’t know what effect this has on health, but it could be harmful Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247750-eating-seaweed-can-genetically-modify-the-bacteria-in-our-guts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Happy World Oceans Day 2020
Why a World Oceans Day? Consider that Remdesivir, an antiviral medication now undergoing clinical trials as a possible Covid-19 treatment, contains compounds found in sea sponges. Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean is the theme for World Oceans Day 2020. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/happy-world-oceans-day…
15 Organic Homemade Plant Food For Your Homestead
You don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive soil fertilizers. There are dozens of homemade plant food recipes and ingredients you can use to boost plant growth and improve soil health. RELATED: Homemade Fertilizer from Compost 15 Simple, Inexpensive Homemade Plant Food Recipes and Ingredients 1. Baking Soda-Ammonia Plant Food Need a quick…Continue Reading
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Kelp is coming: How seaweed could prevent catastrophic climate change
From providing a green alternative to plastics to reducing methane emissions and sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, seaweed could be the secret ingredient we need to clean up our planet Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632821-100-kelp-is-coming-how-seaweed-could-prevent-catastrophic-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
AI can search satellite data to find plastic floating in the sea
AI can check satellite images of the ocean and distinguish between floating materials such as seaweed or plastics, which could help clean-up efforts Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2241500-ai-can-search-satellite-data-to-find-plastic-floating-in-the-sea/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Billion-year-old green algae is an ancestor of all plants on Earth
A billion years ago, this green seaweed likely produced oxygen and provided shelter for other organisms. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oldest-green-algae-discovered.html
Can We Save Coral Reefs Using Underwater Loudspeakers?
“The desperate search for ways to help the world’s coral reefs rebound from the devastating effects of climate change has given rise to some radical solutions,” reports the Washington Post. There’s coral “nurseries” in the Caribbean, while Hawaiian scientists are trying to breed a new and more resilient type of coral. But at least one team focused on the herbivorous fish…
Volcanic eruption creates moveable islands of pumice
Last month, rafts of pumice, spewed from an undersea volcano and spanning an area about the size of Washington, D.C., appeared in the South Pacific. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/pumice-islands-volcanic-eruption…