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Australian Seaweed Farm Tackles Burps To Help Climate

Beneath the waves at Sea Forest in Tasmania are forests of asparagopsis, a native red seaweed (Credit: AFP)

It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering flatulence and belches.

The underwater farm stretches across 1,800 hectares (4,400 acres) in the Tasman Sea, about 10 minutes off the portside town of Triabunna in the island state of Tasmania.

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