The world’s seagrasses possess a remarkable ability to capture and store vast amounts of carbon, according to a global study published in Nature Communications. The comprehensive analysis, led by FIU ...

The historic Black Friar’s building sits in Sutton Harbor, on England’s southern coast. Once home to a Dominican Order monastery dating back to 1431, the building now houses the Plymouth Gin ...

Seagrasses are a small group of around 60 flowering plants that mainly live in shallow waters from the tropics to the arctic. Although seagrasses are often confused with seaweeds, they are two very ...

THESE researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, are on a mission to rescue a crucial marine ecosystem that is being lost to climate change: seagrass meadows.

More than 1,000 manatees died in 2021, due mostly to starvation. They consume about 100 pounds of seagrass a day, and this staple food is now scarce in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL). A new study ...

Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Seagrasses are more efficient at storing carbon in the soil or sediment, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Seagrasses are flowering marine plants that live in shallow coastal ...

Long understudied and misunderstood, seagrass is now being recognized for its importance around the world as a carbon sink but also as an essential part of people’s daily lives. But it is also being ...