Seaweed Generation: Startup Placing Carbon Stores on Ocean Floor
The London-based startup is tackling the "Great Sargassum Monster" with a Roomba-like robot transporting seaweed deep underwater.
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The London-based startup is tackling the "Great Sargassum Monster" with a Roomba-like robot transporting seaweed deep underwater.
The floating brown seaweed known as sargassum has exploded in record-setting mass throughout the region. There is increasing commercial and research interest in developing ways to put it to use.
A series of new studies detected troubling arsenic levels in sargassum.
Sargassum, the seaweed clump along Florida shores, is causing toxicity, skin irritation, and respiratory issues. Read more here.
The 5,000-mile-wide clump of sargassum seaweed is starting to wash up on beaches across Florida and the Caribbean and is releasing toxic gases as it rots.