Kelp Farming May Help Clean Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change
Though too toxic to eat, the seaweed in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay and the East River could suck up carbon and pollutants, bolstering marine ecosystems.
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Paddling their boat in a creek inlet in Greenpoint, Shanjana Mahmud and Luke Eddins, volunteers with the Newtown Creek Alliance, headed to a series of yellow buoys.
Against a background of the piles of metal at a recycling facility and the Long Island Expressway on Friday, Mahmud reached into the water and lifted a rope tied to a buoy. The line emerged dripping with the shaggy spirals of a rubbery brown seaweed: sugar kelp.