The sheep on the remote Scottish island of North Ronaldsay have a unique talent which may help tackle climate change: they eat a diet consisting mainly of seaweed. Scientists have been inspired by the animals to see if adding seaweed to livestock feed can help reduce animals’ production of methane, a very strong greenhouse gas.

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