From eyesore to asset: How a smelly seaweed could soon fuel cars

BBCBiologist Shanika Spencer was delighted when a test using sargassum to fuel a car was successfulWhen large swathes of invasive seaweed started washing up on Caribbean beaches in 2011, local residents were perplexed.Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting the region’s prized coastlines, repelling holidaymakers with the pungent…