Seagrass meadows cover less than 1% of the ocean surface but contribute an estimated 10% of the annual carbon sequestration in the ocean. AM : Some of your research has been acoustically monitoring ...

This figure illustrates the efficiency of (L-R) mangrove forests, salt marshes and seagrass beds as reservoirs for carbon. More carbon dioxide is taken up from the atmosphere (green arrows) than ...

New research in Nature Geoscience estimates that the world’s seagrass meadows conservatively store 19.9 billion metric tons of carbon, even though the […] Features Videos ...

Seagrass plants have a large capacity for absorbing and storing carbon on the seafloor. Shutterstock. According to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, urgent and unprecedented ...

A stock image shows seagrass underwater. Scientists have documented the largest seagrass ecosystem in the world in a study published on November 1, 2022.

Deloitte has teamed up with Climate Impact Partners for a program to fund U.K seagrass recovery and unlock long-term finance to save and reinstate vital seagrass meadows. The program, in ...

Seagrass ecosystems are highly productive, and are sites of significant carbon sequestration. Sediment-held carbon stocks can be many thousands of years old, and persist largely due to sediment anoxia ...

The study predicts that protecting at-risk seagrass meadows could avert climate damages valued in excess of $200 billion by preventing the release of 1.2 billion tons of carbon pollution. This is ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Massachusetts has the largest potential for blue carbon sequestration in New England — more than 112,000 acres of salt marshes, eelgrass meadows, and reeds in wetlands, according to the EPA’s ...