Curbing animal flatulence with seaweed, to help the planet


By AGENCY
Vials used to test how algae reacts to different conditions at SeaForest’s headquarters in Triabunna, Tasmania. This seaweed crop is destined to curb livestock’s climate-altering flatulence and belches. — Photos: GREGORY PLESSE/AFP

It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock’s climate-altering ­flatulence and belches.

The underwater farm stretches across 1,800 hectares in the Tasman Sea, about 10 minutes off the portside town of Triabunna in the island state of Tasmania.

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