Philippines: Seaweed will survive nuclear winter and feed humanity

An international team of researchers argues that if humanity does not come to its senses and allows a nuclear war, the consequences of which will be blocking sunlight, then countries with seaweed farms will have a better chance of feeding their populations. According to researchers from the Disaster Feeding Alliance, which includes several scientific organizations (University of the Philippines Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Canterbury, Louisiana State University and others), seaweed is resilient enough to survive and thrive even after a full-scale nuclear war. , writes the portal SciDev.Net. Scientists prove this using the example of red seaweed Gracilaria tikvahiae, which is rich in nutrients. Using existing nuclear winter climate data, the researchers modeled the growth of algae after this catastrophic global event. Let's assume that if a nuclear war broke out and thousands of warheads were exchanged between nuclear powers, about 150 teragrams of soot emissions ...