- Researchers at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have completed a global-scale assessment of large-scale macroalgae (seaweed) cultivation as a marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) strategy, revealing both its potential for mitigating climate change and its environmental trade-offs.
- The study, led by Prima Anugerahanti and published in Biogeosciences, used the NEMO-MEDUSA ocean biogeochemical model to investigate how extensive seaweed farming could influence the global carbon cycle, ocean chemistry, and marine ecosystems under a range of cultivation scenarios.
- Marine carbon dioxide removal approaches are receiving growing attention as potential tools to help limit climate change alongside the significant emissions reductions required.
Read the full news here: NOC Study Finds Large-Scale Seaweed Farming Offers Limited Carbon Removal Potential