New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...
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New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon -- and add another 15,000-worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...
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New England’s salt marshes store 10 million cars’ worth of carbon—and add another 15,000-worth every year
While scientists have long known that coastal salt marshes are just such a sink for “blue carbon,” or carbon stored in the ocean and coastal ecosystems, it has been difficult to get an ...
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Too Much Salt in the Soil Is No Problem for These Crops
Salinity has been an enemy of agriculture for millennia because even though many crops can withstand low to moderate salt ...
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Blue carbon. Why coastal salt marshes?
Few people appreciate that the nearby Olonne marshes form a veritable laboratory for blue carbon. Coastal salt marshes are low-lying, gently sloping lands found along sheltered coasts (estuaries, ...
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Growing oceanic network hunts universe’s ‘ghost particles’
Diplomatic Courier editor Jeremy Fugleberg brings you three under–the–radar stories from the Hinterlands: scientists search ...
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Seagrass meadows as natural climate protectors
Background: Blue Carbon Blue Carbon is the carbon dioxide stored by marine and coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrass meadows. Seagrass meadows sequester carbon in the ...