<story><title>Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely</title><url>https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_X</author><text>It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because right now the West coast from San Francisco North to at least Fort Bragg, has been suffering a kelp die off of great proportions.&lt;p&gt;No one is quite sure whats going on, but apparently due to climate change, or at least warmer ocean water from further South that we&amp;#x27;ve had for the last 5 or more years, has caused the kelp to die off at a rapid rate, to the point of denuding whole sections of ocean bottom.&lt;p&gt;The whole sea urchin industry has been devastated, and those folks received Federal Disaster funds last year to make it through this year, but things are still bleak.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s as big a catastrophe as the Australian coral die off, yet it&amp;#x27;s not getting much press here in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamblor956</author><text>Per various articles I could find on the West Coast Kelp Die Off, it appears that multiple years of warm El Nino waters, a massive starfish wasting disease, and urchin boom resulted in a 3-pronged assault on kelp populations.  Now that the El Nino waters have cooled, and the starfish population is returning to normal, 2 of the 3 stress factors are being reduced.  The last--the urchin population--is being controlled through a combination of the regrowing starfish population and man-made efforts like urchin vacuums.&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kqed.org&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;1357320&amp;#x2F;scientists-and-fishermen-scramble-to-save-northern-californias-kelp-forests&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kqed.org&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;1357320&amp;#x2F;scientists-and-fisherme...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely</title><url>https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Mister_X</author><text>It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because right now the West coast from San Francisco North to at least Fort Bragg, has been suffering a kelp die off of great proportions.&lt;p&gt;No one is quite sure whats going on, but apparently due to climate change, or at least warmer ocean water from further South that we&amp;#x27;ve had for the last 5 or more years, has caused the kelp to die off at a rapid rate, to the point of denuding whole sections of ocean bottom.&lt;p&gt;The whole sea urchin industry has been devastated, and those folks received Federal Disaster funds last year to make it through this year, but things are still bleak.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s as big a catastrophe as the Australian coral die off, yet it&amp;#x27;s not getting much press here in the USA.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ransom1538</author><text>&amp;quot;catastrophe as the Australian coral die off,&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I went deep sea fishing in Florida a few months back.  It took &lt;i&gt;forever&lt;/i&gt; to get to a place where there were actual fish. I asked the captain why, basically, he knows where there are large shipping container wrecks and that is where all the sea life is.&lt;p&gt;Thing is, building coral and sea life is super simple [same with killing it]. You literally can just lay down wire grids and get things moving [1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abc.net.au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-11-26&amp;#x2F;scientists-discover-game-changer-for-great-barrier-reef&amp;#x2F;9190200&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.abc.net.au&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-11-26&amp;#x2F;scientists-discover-ga...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>