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Seagrass and climate change
As well as providing a valuable shelter, allowing old plant matter
habitat for sea creatures, seagrass and materials from other dead
has the potential to be a natural organisms to collect on the sea floor.
solution to climate change. As these layers of organic matter
Seagrasses can keep masses of (including absorbed carbon)
carbon locked away and out of continue to form and build up,
our atmosphere. The plant draws carbon is locked away into the ocean
carbon from the ocean and its floor for thousands of years.
densely packed fronds create
Credit: Jeff Hester / Ocean Image Bank
