Rob Kinley, a Dalhousie-educated researcher working in Australia, found that feeding artificial cow stomachs seaweed reduces the amount of methane produced by up to 99 per cent. His next step is taking the experiment out of the lab and testing seaweed on cows themselves, the largest animal contributors to climate change. Q What is it about methane that’s particularly problematic? Q Before testing the seaweed on live cows you built a fake cow stomach and tested it in a lab. The type of seaweed that’s being mass produced, is it the red seaweed that you’re working with?

Source: National Post October 21, 2016 18:56 UTC