{"id":6296,"date":"2019-11-01T09:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"seagrass-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-against-global-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/01\/seagrass-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-against-global-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Seagrass\u2014Secret Weapon In The Fight Against Global Heating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN\nNews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most threatened yet overlooked ecosystems on\nearth, seagrass could have a promising future thanks to its ability to absorb carbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seagrass is a flowering marine plant whose blades form\ndense meadows in shallow, sheltered areas along coastlines. It has a range of\nbenefits: seagrass acts as a nursery and food source for a wide variety of\nmarine life, provides a home for many fish and charismatic animals such as\nturtles and dugongs, protects coastlines by absorbing wave energy, produces\noxygen and cleans the ocean by soaking up polluting nutrients produced on land\nby humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, seagrass accounts for\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ngeo1477\" target=\"_blank\">10 per cent of the ocean\u2019s capacity to store carbon<\/a>\u2014so-called \u201cblue carbon\u201d\u2014despite occupying only 0.2 per cent of the sea floor, and it can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woi.economist.com\/can-seagrass-realise-its-potential-in-the-fight-against-climate-change\/\">capture carbon from the atmosphere up to 35 times faster than tropical rainforests.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/seagrass-secret-weapon-fight-against-global-heating\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News One of the most threatened yet overlooked ecosystems on earth, seagrass could have a promising future thanks to its ability to absorb carbon. Seagrass is a flowering&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}