So far, the team has carried out China's first large-scale seagrass bed restoration projects, including those in Tangshan, ...

Sea grass beds, like these off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, might buffer the impacts of ocean acidification. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Seagrass beds can in turn attract larger animals ... “Any scientist that works on the ocean will tell you there’s just so much of it that is still unknown,” Vinaccia said.

While less than 1% of the seafloor is made up of seagrass beds, those beds store about 11% of the ocean’s buried carbon, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

We know the ocean holds powerful solutions both for mitigation and adaptation - from the carbon sequestered in ‘blue carbon’ habitats like mangroves, seagrass beds and kelp forests, to the protection ...

While covering only 0.1% of the ocean bed, seagrass ecosystems account for 10%–18% of the carbon buried in the oceans, according to a January 2020 study in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

Each year seagrass absorbs as much as 10% of the ocean’s carbon dioxide ... team of scientists are determined to help the seagrass beds recover. They are working hard to collect over a million ...

However, these stunning views come at a steep environmental cost—thousands of acres of seagrass beds surrounding tropical ... Essential to the ocean ecosystem, seagrass meadows not only provide ...