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Seaweed could be added to Maine’s blue carbon stock

Por: Portland Press Herald Nation September 22, 2023

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Strands of kelp at a seaweed farm created by researchers at the University of New England. Researchers began to reassess seaweed’s storage potential when they found traces of macroalgae carbon in deep-sea sediments. They now believe seaweed fragments drift and sink to such depths that they are sequestered. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer Maine is one of the first states to consider the carbon storage potential of seaweed in its carbon budget,... + full article



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