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They can lock up an average of 86 metric tonnes of carbon per hectare – equivalent to the annual emissions from 22 cars. Read ...
“In the Great Barrier Reef, [seagrasses] grow down to about 75 meters [246 feet],” Len McKenzie, the chief scientist at Seagrass Watch and a member of the expert team assessing the situation ...
The North Shore Park Seagrass Mitigation Bank Project aims to restore seagrass to the 170-plus-acre shoreline near Coffee Pot ...
In late September, seagrass ecologist Alyssa Novak pulled on her neoprene wetsuit, pressed her snorkel mask against her face, and jumped off an oyster farming boat into the shallow waters of ...
Halophila stipulacea, a nonnative seagrass from the Indian Ocean ... There have been no sightings thus far. Flood watch in effect for South Florida through Tuesday. 10 inches of rain possible ...
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — The City of St. Pete is working to improve our waterways. After hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated some of our seagrass, a new project could bring new life to our coast.
When it comes to the seagrass beds that stretch across Florida’s largest open-water estuary, there’s some good news and bad news. The good news: For the first time in nearly a decade ...
Summer Choraitis, a senior at Arnold High School, tackles seagrass cultivation to save northern Florida's coastline The bird at the center of the worst single-species mortality event in modern ...
Seagrass acreage in Lake Worth Lagoon, Florida, has increased by one-third since 2018, now totaling nearly 2,100 acres. Palm Beach County's restoration efforts, including island building and sand ...
An invasive seagrass has been officially spotted in South Florida–the first time it’s been found in waters along the continental United States–and scientists say it could mean trouble for ...
On a thin stretch of beach near the Crandon Marina on Key Biscayne, Justin Campbell scans the water for the latest threat to Florida’s vanishing seagrass meadows: a new exotic seagrass that has ...