Benefits of seaweed farming

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The Zanzibar women who make their living farming seaweed

Seaweed has been one of Zanzibar's key exports since the 1990s but now it appears the industry is at risk.

Isles’ CUF presidential candidate Seif Sharif Hamad has promised seaweed growers he will raise the price of their products if he is elected to form the next government.

Tiny Chinese seaweed is oldest green plant fossil ever found  The GuardianBillion-year-old fossil seaweeds could be ancestors of all land plants  New Scientist NewsOne billion-year-old green seaweed fossils identified, relative of modern land plants  Phys.orgSeaweed from a billion years ago  CosmosBillion-year-old green algae is a relative of all plants on dry land  ZME ScienceView Full coverage on Google News

Billion-year-old seaweed fossil suggests algae is 200 million years older than we previously thought  BBC Focus Magazine

This is the second part of a series of articles on giving. Last week, we articulated that true happiness is in giving. Today, we bring yet another interesting aspect in the giving process. Read on:

Despite the fact that the Drug Enforcement Agency categorizes marijuana as a schedule I drug, one that has no accepted medical use, a majority of Americans have thought medical pot should be legal since the late 1990s — and a majority now support recreational legalization as well.

Washington D.C. and 23 states have legalized medical marijuana (that number is 35 states if we count laws with very limited access).

Even the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse lists medical uses for...

Sweat is our own, free-of-charge air conditioning unit, built inside our skin. It cools down the body so we don’t over-work ourselves and get heat stroke. It keeps us in balance. But what else does it do, and why is it so recommended to ‘work up a sweat’? Well, it may have to do with the following 10 reasons:

1. Did you know that sweat glands help heal wounds?

In recent years, many studies have focused on the rarely researched sweat galnands, especially the eccrine sweat glands. These can...