{"id":178811,"date":"2024-08-19T03:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-seaweed-brings-local-benefits-but-may-not-save-the-climate\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T03:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:27:06","slug":"mozambique-seaweed-brings-local-benefits-but-may-not-save-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-seaweed-brings-local-benefits-but-may-not-save-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Seaweed Brings Local Benefits but May Not Save the Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Seaweed&#8217;s ability to suck huge quantities of carbon out of the air have been questioned, but there are other reasons to grow it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">With its low-lying <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saiia.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dttp_biacuana_climate_change_challenges_for_mozambique_20091026.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">2,700<\/a> km-long coastline and vulnerability to tropical <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/africanarguments.org\/tag\/cyclones\/\" rel=\"noopener\">cyclones<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/africanarguments.org\/category\/african-arguments\/country\/southern\/mozambique\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mozambique<\/a> is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. In recent years, devastating storms, surge flooding, and droughts &#8211; made more intense and frequent by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/africanarguments.org\/category\/african-arguments\/climate\/\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> &#8211; have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/africanarguments.org\/2023\/03\/nobody-imagined-it-would-be-so-intense-mozambique-cyclone-freddy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">affected<\/a> thousands of people and killed hundreds in the southern African nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">But could Mozambique also be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150177.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaweed&#8217;s ability to suck huge quantities of carbon out of the air have been questioned, but there are other reasons to grow it. With its low-lying 2,700 km-long coastline and vulnerability to tropical cyclones, Mozambique is on the frontlines of the climate crisis. In recent years, devastating storms, surge flooding, and droughts &#8211; made more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430947:525be56f685033395644884a8adc4427:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6481,6561,6239,7823,4704,682,257,7301,40089,254],"class_list":["post-178811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefits","tag-brings","tag-climate","tag-local","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-save","tag-seaweed","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430947:525be56f685033395644884a8adc4427:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}