Fakhraee & Planavsky (2026): Seaweed farms enhance alkalinity production and carbon capture
Mojtaba Fakhraee and Noah J. Planavsky, IN: Communications Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44458-025-00004-8
Seaweed aquaculture is increasingly being explored as a sustainable source of food and industrial processing feedstock, as well as a potential climate solution through carbon dioxide removal. In this study, the authors use a sediment diagenetic model to quantify how elevated organic carbon fluxes beneath seaweed farms enhance sedimentary alkalinity fluxes, contributing to long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.