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Can seaweed help curb global warming?

Tim Flannery · TED

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It's time for planetary-scale interventions to combat climate change -- and environmentalist Tim Flannery thinks seaweed can help. In a bold talk, he shares the epic carbon-capturing potential of seaweed, explaining how oceangoing seaweed farms created on a massive scale could trap all the carbon we emit into the atmosphere. Learn more about this potentially planet-saving solution -- and the work that's still needed to get there.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDSummit 2019
Speaker
Tim Flannery
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Engineering, Earth and environment
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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