Hans Bot – 🙃 on Nostr: Rich countries fail to protect their underwater forests. In the western Atlantic, ...

Rich countries fail to protect their underwater forests.
In the western Atlantic, some eelgrass meadows have been reduced by more than 90 percent in the last 100 years.
Seagrasses sequester up to 18 percent of carbon stored in the ocean, capturing it 35 times faster than tropical rainforests. 🌊🌾
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04122024/east-coast-eelgrass-restoration-carbon-capture/