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cover of episode A cry for kelp: How this seaweed can help fight climate change

A cry for kelp: How this seaweed can help fight climate change

2022/8/31
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The Decibel

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Kelp has traditionally been harvested for food, but we’re discovering other new ways we could be using kelp as well … like in packaging, to replace plastics, or even in animal feed to reduce the methane released by cows.

National correspondent Wendy Stueck went out on a kelp harvest), and tells us why kelp farming could help coastal communities’ green economies, and be used as an innovative and sustainable new material.