In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...

She notes that blue carbon, or carbon captured by oceans and ... The impact of the small invertebrates on salt marshes is visually dramatic and can be seen in satellite imagery.

Few people appreciate that the nearby Olonne marshes form a veritable laboratory for blue carbon. Coastal salt marshes are ...

Maine salt marshes are a key tool in the fight against climate change, acting as a buffer against storms and soaking up ...

This project focuses on the development of more reliable estimates of carbon storage in coastal wetland systems ... data to construct more accurate assessments of carbon storage in salt marsh and to ...

“Blue carbon” is the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems. These ecosystems include everything from mangroves to seagrass beds and salt marshes. The World Bank's first-of-its-kind blue ...

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the plant, including water, other organisms and soil conditions, influences how ...

In 2009, a “Blue Carbon” report by the UN Environment Programme also said that mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses captured up to 450 million tonnes of carbon a year. It urged far greater ...

"At the beginning of this century, mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and salt marshes were under appreciated ... Professor Duarte says. "Today, blue carbon strategies of mitigating greenhouse ...

Oceans 2050, under the leadership of President Alexandra Cousteau and Chief Scientist Professor Carlos Duarte, has unveiled ...

Because of this, salt marshes are critical as places that store carbon, keeping it out of the ... My lab studies the blue crab, famous in the Chesapeake Bay, which generated over US$200 million ...