MIT Researcher's Machine Learning Study Can Save Seaweed

Seaweed is very popular in East Asian cuisines, and it has enormous promise as a long-term food supply for the world's rising population. Seaweed, in addition to its nutritional value, protects the environment from a variety of hazards. It aids in the battle against climate change by absorbing extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and fertilizer run-off, keeping coasts clean. Seaweed, like so many other marine species, is endangered by the exact thing it serves to mitigate: climate change. Due to unregulated bacterial proliferation, entire seaweed farms are destroyed in days.