This seaweed can fight climate change

The battle against climate change is creating all-new economies and truly unique innovations. We went to a lab in Hawaii and a farm in New York to see how an unlikely pair are teaming up to fight one of agriculture's most potent problems: methane gas.
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[@VergeScience]

What other applications do you think seaweed could have in fighting climate change?

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

marine permaculture, and as mulch for regeneritive grazing systems.

[@henrywalke9129]

In general planting fast growing forms of seaweed in the ocean to take up carbon emissions and sentiment in a few weeks storing the carbon in the ground

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

@@henrywalke9129 seaweed as food for wild fish is also a really good option. composting bio waste from households, farms, stores, and the like is also a really good option for sequestering loads of carbon.

[@ONeill01]

Use the land to feed people via plants rather than exploiting and slaughtering animals for unnecessary consumption

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

@@ONeill01 what do you think about eating larger animals, road kill and elderly animals.

[@Big007Boss]

Cut the middle man, feed the weed to humans

[@gavin2391]

FEED THE WEED FEED THE WEED

[@ecoideazventures6417]

Hey Sharif, how about genetically engineering seaweed to add addictive properties from the other weed?!

[@zeitgeistx5239]

Billions of people eat seaweed in Asia. Get educated.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

@@zeitgeistx5239 make it the norm for everyone, not just SEA

[@AzureFides]

@@zeitgeistx5239 we eat it but not as the main dish, more as a garnish. So it doesn't contribute anything as we still consume a lot of meat.

[@CC-tl3zs]

I misread that as “seaweed vs meth” and was hyped out of my mind

[@ateisme3752]

This goes even longer back in time, in the Nordics many farmers used seaweed to feed their animals during the winter.

[@KCamp-li3sr]

this seems very promising. i hope this comes into effect very soon.

[@Manos_P_]

Fun fact, simbrosia means in Greek "to eat with" or "with food", depending on the circumstances. More specifically, syn+brosi (συν+βρωση)=plus-with+food

[@erob9446]

Cool

[@yash1152]

wow, nice that u mentioned spellings in greek script. it feels nice activity/brain game to me to read in greek.

[@Manos_P_]

Hey! Thank you for your coments! I really find fascinating the origin of some words. Is much more easier to recall them after some time and understand the circumstances where they formed!!

[@yash1152]

@@Manos_P_ :) 🤝

[@designermombygeetachugh2022]

Oh..thank you

[@MJ-lo5ik]

I think I need seaweed too XD

[@martinae8601]

Yes, I thought the same, I want this supplement as well. :D Well, in Switzerland you can buy seaweed in the shops, but it's quite expensive and at the same time delicious but also gross in taste...

[@MJ-lo5ik]

@@martinae8601 OK OK. I was just joking but thanks for the info XD. *thumbs up*

[@SameLif3]

But does it have glyphosate now ?

[@rolloxra670]

@@martinae8601 How can it be delicious and gross at the same time? lol

[@ileryon4019]

Sea weed for the sea men

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Also good against human methane gas from the back pipe. Good for human health too !

[@nickmagrick7702]

how do you know it will do the same thing in people? And do people even produce a significant amount of methane?

[@nowsherabdullah1878]

@@nickmagrick7702 nope they dont

[@chelseashurmantine8153]

Thanks. This is the news we all need to see

[@fuckyoutube9416]

You have a magnetosphere. You were born with this ability. Wim Hof 0 immune response to bacteria. You're standing on a magnet. You have a magnet in your chest. Use it. Asteroids increased month by month for the last ten years with natural disasters. This is coming from space. People just poured fuel on the fire for control. We can't stop what's coming because the truth of what we are has been hidden.

[@user-de1qp4sm9o]

Seeing something like this makes me good and hopefully that there are people out there finding and doing research to significantly help the environment

[@Emanuele246gi]

Actually there is more than have been done for the environment, it's just that media tend to not show always the good news...

[@yash1152]

1:26 nice animation in that graphic. the graph behind the pie chart helped - never saw/noticed that before.

[@NyanGeneral]

please keep making these videos, they're amazing. hopefully this stuff in particular becomes very successful in future.

[@virtualdrudgery]

7:35 cow was groovin 😆

[@senselocke]

I remember reading about this a few years back. It's nice to see they're progressing (testing long-term health, etc).

[@edaps]

2023: Why seaweed hasn't taken over

[@yash1152]

7:54 ha, that's the thing i wanna talk about

[@ArvindRajan]

Verge Science is the best I love y’all

[@Biociety]

Amazing innovation on Livestock :D I've always been obsessed with innovation on Agricultural Science

[@GB-vh9td]

That's very promising !

[@Sivah_Akash]

Nice point about incentive.

At 5:31 they answered, how they measured the "emission" output, if anyone is wondering.

[@BloodAsp]

The ending of the video is understated. Just don't use animal products y'all.

[@silverbackanimal7215]

By just eating meat and drinking water completely fixed more inflammation and ulcerative colitis, I now play professional football for a well known Aussie rules team

[@Mede_N]

Great content! Well balanced. Thanks for that very interesting video! 👍

[@willm5814]

Nice work! Love from Canada 🇨🇦

[@alexandrepascal3573]

is the carbon overall budget making all of this enterprise worth it? legit question

[@brenohenrique6666]

I'm from Brasil and on college for agrary sciences and this is really cool for me

[@rolfw2336]

Beautiful work! Thanks for reporting on it :-)

[@Tango771]

Amazing, what great work!

[@elgracko]

i like the format of them standing there, explaining,

[@elgracko]

@Verge Science , not that interested, thanks though.✌️👌

[@jujunak]

@Verge Science ??

[@solokalnesaltam3015]

@Verge Science Internet Fundamentals, don't engage with trolls. Interesting content as usual

[@zatar123]

Also got to factor in any carbon footprint related to growing, processing, and shipping all that seaweed.

[@SilvaDreams]

They never factor that stuff in, just like how solar panels create a bigger carbon foot print in their creation then they'll ever save

[@Rotem_S]

Seems negligible when you only need 2% feed and seaweed is already so efficient But yeah, this is needed for more accuracy, I just don't think it'll change the results much

[@Game_Hero]

@@SilvaDreams source?

[@Mrstevie760]

I was working on this stuff and the problem with it is you need so much land area that you might as well stop eating meat if you actually want to reduce methane. The main component being an ozone depleted is not too good either.

[@hopkapi]

Huh?

[@edcasey3850]

Would it not be possible to create artificially fertilised sections of sea in which to grow these species of algae to mitigate land usage? For example the Netherlands and the east of Britain have huge areas of shallow sea that are currently used for seaweed production for restaurants or even for use as fertilizers.

[@GGori_99]

Verge Science is the best !!! U guys shud upload more videos

[@uros.u.novakovic]

This was VERY entertaining and informative to watch. Thank you so much for this video cause I was not aware of any of this. This is great news.

[@psychtank8681]

Hey, can we make "land" weed help with climate change as well? I mean i really like them and would be great if we can make them helpful as well.

[@YellowLAVA]

Ikr

[@frankylst]

Amazing!

[@Fidddle2Pie]

this is incredible!

[@davidedelzingaro7524]

I would research also the difference in mineral content and composition of the fecal pellets of sheeps betweens sheeps that are being fed with and without algae, they could also make a better organic fertilizer. I love this research, you have all my intellectual support 😂.

[@williamgibson2760]

Good story - but I am surprised that being a channel to explain science that "seaweed" and "algae" are used synonymous. These are two distinct organisms, not even in the same Family. The algae & seaweed may have a natural symbiotic relationship, but this is neither identified nor explained.

[@Pretinho-yx3nz]

Bruh she said the seaweed they are producing is a macro algae

[@jonathansimonds1677]

I agree that these terms can be very confusing, seaweed is in fact a type of algae! Many of the algae that we think of normally are single-celled microalgae, but there are many algae that are multicellular with differentiate tissues, scientist call these "macroalgae" but most people just call them "seaweed." There are also a few organisms that are commonly called seaweed but are not algae and are actually vascular plants, mostly sea grasses. So they're definitely not perfect synonyms, but there is a lot of overlap A. taxiformis happens to be an organism that could be correctly identified as algae and seaweed. Hope this helps! :)

[@williamgibson2760]

@@jonathansimonds1677 thank you!

[@williamgibson2760]

@@Pretinho-yx3nz thank you

[@ubsumanthrao3206]

Very informative.

[@dale7256]

The drink dispenser used as a tank is clever.

[@cris7ea]

Please make more science videos!

[@kelvenlim9283]

This is revolutionary

[@emmygreen5864]

Thanks

[@nelha9222]

Awesome.

[@DemeDemetre]

i was waiting for this after your post

[@gmxealot6236]

> farmer > white coat brave choice

[@ronreece8437]

Though I really see very little concern over Methane emissions, since it gets oxidized by Sunlight and have a very short residency in the atmosphere, I see the value of increasing positive animal health outcomes. So I applaud her efforts, though, IMO, climatically misguided. She should think about marketing it as a form of "Beano" for human use as well..

[@ar4837]

This is so cool

[@Nerdykid95]

What about the carbon output from vehicles, like those made by Lexus? It's still a pretty huge issue

[@ProtoMan137]

@Ankit Meher an electric cars carbon footprint is as big as the footprints of a conventional car-when it's been used for 3 years...

[@yash1152]

2:49 macro algae (the speech), or micro algae (the not autogenerated captions) - which one is right??

[@designermombygeetachugh2022]

Oh yeah...she said macro but cc says micro I think its macro

[@axe-z8316]

amazing.

[@Whocares.........]

I thought there were specifically designed enzymes in feed already...

[@tikayscake2416]

Honestly red seaweed, corn and beans sounds like a panera bread entree

[@Ryan.zelenski]

Very exciting

[@jackbenimblejack1]

brazil needs this

[@martopad]

cool!

[@Amitdas-gk2it]

Nice 👌

[@napriaa5175]

I heard about this from the show Down To Earth on Netflix with Zach Efron, its a really amazing and vital thing for us !

[@waterunderthebridge7950]

I’m just imagining the farmer lady holding test tubes to the sheep’s... orifices to collect samples for methane measuring xD

[@therion108]

Please can you provide a source for decreasing amount of pastoral land mentioned at 8:07?

[@VergeScience]

Hey Therion, the study was from the Breakthrough Institute, which looked at data from the Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads.thebreakthrough.org/articles/achieving-peak-pasture/Pasture_Report_FINAL%20%281%29.pdf

[@therion108]

@@VergeScience Thank you very much! : )

[@chrono55771]

Could this seaweed be grown in a vertical indoor farm perhaps?

[@taylorjohnson4943]

There should be some solid research and development into probiotics for most farm animals to be using. With some positive probiotic bacteria specifically designed for individual farm animals I think would be a major contributor to the reduction of greenhouse gases from our livestock.

[@tombaenadaglio5425]

Mindblown

[@tombaenadaglio5425]

@Verge Science I'll pass. Too early in the morning to deal with an unverified copycat account scam. Dont waste your time with this dude. Teach english, stream on Twitch, do something profitable and at least interesting. Edit: Misspelled "too"

[@hamburgeryumyum7491]

So fish can have weed but when i have weed the cops become mad

[@fuckyoutube9416]

They're mad even if you don't have weed. Then they can't arrest you.

[@prototype9000]

Fight a problem that dont exsist by creating a big problem

[@luigikart2225]

Why so little likes and comments on a Verge video? It's weird

[@ashtongilbert]

It came out 4 hours ago…

[@luigikart2225]

@@ashtongilbert Oh yeah I noticed, I guess this channel's audience comes around a few hours after the video. It seemed unusual to me since most channels this size I have seen get lots of traffic an hour after upload at most.

[@smilesxo06]

Yeah two days later and still not much, it's sad, people need to see this.

[@hbarudi]

Good to see benefits from seaweed, we now need an environmentally friendly way to farm seaweed.

[@gehrigornelas6317]

Great to see this. I wish them all the success and hope to be able to buy such low carbon beef, lamb, and dairy soon.

[@MrGrombie]

The government should pay people for seaweed, and then get the fish farms to convert to plants. Increasing bio diversity in the oceans, as well as providing more sources to get the seaweed.

[@stephanrichard7006]

The amount of pasture land may be decreasing but doesnt mean the amount of livestock is decreasing

[@nilnull5457]

Hope this invention doesn't go the way insulin went, Banting and Best et. al. found it, donated to their university and now is plagued with evergreening and exorbitant prices. The whole world needs these kind of product.( I am not against capitalism, but ethics should also be considered).

[@liambohl]

You say "the amount of global pasture land has actually been shrinking over the past 20 years, meaning our shift away from livestock dependence may have already begun". Can't that decrease in pasture land be explained by the rise of factory farming?

[@sandworm9528]

Definitely

[@leader7418]

LOVE THIS VID keep spreading the news! SAVE THE ENVIORMENT

[@DeBoner13]

but can we grow the seaweed on the west or east coast or even inland as opposed to hawaii? or what are we offsetting when corporate farms ship tons of this to CAFOs across the pacific and by train?

[@anhtunguyen781]

Snoop Dog will approve this and enjoy it while swimming

[@trevinotano]

I heard about this years ago. Almost a decade. Why had nothing been done using it

[@maulanamuhammadaziz9752]

Cool really cool

[@erob9446]

So pretty much I watched a video about reducing Cows' methane Farts

[@lifelinerodz7703]

could be the seaweed will also help to lower the CO2 in the sea?

[@erob9446]

They're pretty much like other plants, so yeah they use carbon sequestration

[@il_vero_saspacifico6141]

Interesting

[@massoud999]

Cool

[@kinzieconrad105]

And we had record cold temps this winter 😜😜😜😜😳😳😳

[@darklywhite9017]

Would this help human diet too?

[@rhiannn3416]

there has been some research in Australia about creating seaweed aquaculture farms as a new source of food for both humans and livestock. the seaweed farms would be in the ocean, and provide habitats for fish there, and one kind of seaweed is the fastest growing plant in the world, grows 1 metre per day, absorbing a large amount of CO2 from the atmosphere as it does this. if you want to know more, Google a website called 2040 seaweed aquaculture. it's really really cool

[@darklywhite9017]

@@rhiannn3416 Thank you!

[@yash1152]

1:37 erasing - pronounced as _erae_ + _sing_ or _e_ + _racing_ in this video. I always heard it like _erae_ + _zing_ !! which one is right/proper??

[@_asha]

all pronunciations are fine :)

[@danielhallman4656]

wow

[@Zizuthecreatorlamarwest]

i really hope that cows dont learn to turn their farts into flammthrowers

[@chrisnas1483]

This announcement sounds just like the guy from Gears and gasoline.

[@gman-nq8nl]

🌋

[@godzuki2099]

Where can I buy stock or invest in that business?

[@avici0182]

This video is great but it activated my Alexa so much

[@Manish-fm5iv]

Suitible for human consumption?

[@fuckyoutube9416]

You have a magnetosphere. You were born with this ability. Wim Hof 0 immune response to bacteria. You're standing on a magnet. You have a magnet in your chest. Use it.

[@baumi8125]

I wonder if they could find the specific chemicals in the seaweed (if there are specific ones/one and not too many) that contribute to this effect of reducing methane and genetically engineer bacteria or yeast to mass produce it. Might be a more efficient/economically viable way to produce it, idk, just a thought. Anyway this is really promising for helping reduce effects of climate change if they can manage to get it used wide-scale.

[@kwatt-engineer796]

Like the experiment with seaweed , but the excitement over methane is overstated. Methane rapidly decomposes into CO2 so the exaggerated effect of methane quickly disappears.

[@RicardoPetinga]

It doesn't disappear if it's constantly being emitted and replaced with new methane. It would disappear if the source would disappear.

[@Dismitum]

Decrease in pasture land ≠ decrease in meat production, as efficiencies have risen worldwide significantly. You need much less land for a factory farm, then free roaming. Pasture land has either decreased due to it being used for other more productive crops or has been lost to soil degradation.

[@RPD___]

I like how the EPA doesn't focus on this, but instead employ stricter emission laws for vehicles.

[@TommyMartinezpt]

So... No trade offs?? I'm higly suspicious of anything that's publicized as being the "salvation", I hope in maybe 40 years after we see how this develops and compare with other ways of farming.

[@BloodAsp]

Trade off: It convinces smooth brains that consuming product of murder and exploitation is okay, and dare they think it, green.

[@TommyMartinezpt]

@@BloodAsp how do you spot the Vegan? They will tell you... 😂😂

[@ONeill01]

@@TommyMartinezpt How to tell if someone made an unoriginal joke...they will tell you

[@TommyMartinezpt]

@@ONeill01 you got triggered too sweety? Can you at least address my concerns about the trade off for this kind of agriculture or you can't even?

[@ONeill01]

@@TommyMartinezpt Seems like you did, since you replied to the original comment with a cliche joke - typical triggered response!

[@Cloud7050]

I do not want to know how researchers measured methane output

[@chefpizza4677]

Mass produced it now!

[@Nagelsmind]

if i eat beans with this seaweed will i have a normal day afterwards?