Good News Notes: “OFF THE COAST of California lies an underwater forest of giant kelp, a kind of seaweed that grows to 100 feet tall at the rate of a foot a day. Just as a terrestrial forest sucks carbon dioxide out of the air, all that rapidly growing seaweed soaks up carbon from the water,…
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Tasmania’s giant kelp forests starting to regrow just a year into rescue trial
Good News Notes: “A little over a year ago these giant kelp were just tiny brown smudges on a laboratory plate. Now they are pillars of hope in the fight to save Tasmania’s giant kelp forests from extinction. Cayne Layton and his team of scientists from the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) began a selective breeding…