Key To Climate Stabilization: Eelgrass The Endangered Marine Plant

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  • Efforts under way to restore seagrass meadows capable of capturing more carbon than rainforests.
  • Like so many natural wonders, eelgrass has been damaged by pollution, disease and other man made disturbances, such as speedboats.
  • Their rhizome root system spreads under the sand, as a second reproduction method, and in doing so stabilizes the seabed.

A Rhizome with long green leaves attached left stranded on a beach after a winter storm shows that just offshore...

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