# Can seaweed help curb global warming?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDSummit 2019
- Speaker: Tim Flannery
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Engineering, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_flannery_can_seaweed_help_curb_global_warming)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [Can seaweed help curb global warming?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/tim_flannery_can_seaweed_help_curb_global_warming/a3affbe0a4b6), 14 min (TED's player)