Your weekly climate + sustainability news fix

Well, Murray, tell us your pick of the week.

What stood out to you? What are you most excited about?

So my pick of the week, Francisca, in one word, asparagopsis.

Now, asparagopsis is a red seaweed that grows in areas including coastal Western Australia and And a company based in Fremantle called Seastock has just received a license to establish an asparagopsis production facility to grow it on shore.

And some people might think, well, why would you bother growing seaweed on shore when there's plenty of it in the sea? That's

exactly what I was thinking.

I was like, hang on, what?

Exactly.

The thing about asparagopsis and the reason they're doing it is that it's got some amazing properties.

For a start, if you give cattle, beef or dairy cattle, a feed supplement that contains an extract from asparagopsis, it can cut methane emissions from their burping by more than 90%.

So that's pretty amazing.

But that's not all.

The red pigment in asparagopsis also has antibacterial, anti-aging, anti-allergy and antiviral properties, which makes it really useful.

I know.

It's just got everything.

Anti-aging, anti-allergy, antiviral.

It just makes you want to grow a tub of asparagopsis in the kitchen.

A

wonder product.

Yeah.

Anyway, it makes it useful in the pharmaceutical industry as well.

So seaweed company Seastock started in about 2021, and it's exciting to see it get approval to build this commercial scale facility with the company aiming to become one of the world's lowest cost producers of asparagopsis extracts.

And so that's my pick.

It's a good news story.

And given those dual properties of methane cutting and anti-aging, I can just imagine, Francisco, some of the chatter among the beef and dairy herds when they start on these feed supplements.