Seafields completes 'world first' seaweed biomass-sinking carbon removal trials

Stuart Stone
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Antonia Thielecke (in blue)/Alfred Wegener Institute leading the operation on board the German icebreaker RV Polarstern. Credit Gianluca Volpe
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Antonia Thielecke (in blue)/Alfred Wegener Institute leading the operation on board the German icebreaker RV Polarstern. Credit Gianluca Volpe

UK-based aquaculture start-up sinks biomass bales, as it seeks to prove carbon removal potential of seaweed cultivation

UK aquaculture start-up Seafields has today provided an update on a series of successful seaweed biomass-sinking trials in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, designed to test the effectiveness...

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