A comprehensive Natural England report on the impact of the nation’s landscape on carbon storage and sequestration, has found that peatlands and native woodlands are habitats which have the greatest capacity to store carbon, but that many others, including coastal and marine habitats such as saltmarsh and seagrass meadows have a significant role to play a […]

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Seagrasses, mangrove forests, and coastal wetlands store vast amounts of carbon, and their preservation and restoration hold great potential to bank CO2 and keep it out of the atmosphere.  But can the blue carbon market avoid the pitfalls that have plagued land-based efforts? In the shallow waters off the shores of Virginia, vast meadows of seagrass have been recreated over the past […]

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Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a paper published from the University of California, is the most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification. The study reports on how seagrass meadows along the California coast  can alleviate low pH, or more acidic  conditions for extended periods of […]

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Restoration potential maps have been developed to provide a national ‘high level’ indication of where intertidal and subtidal seagrass, native oysters and saltmarsh could potentially be restored based on some key physical attributes. The maps are accessible on the Coastal Data Explorer portal hosted by the Rivers Trust that is being developed as part of […]

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An estimated 92% of the UK seagrass beds have been lost in the last century. This summer seeds were collected from existing meadows around the British Isles by a group of volunteers led by Swansea University. They have been sorted and are being prepared to be planted this winter in Dale Bay, Pembrokeshire. Historically this […]

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The  2015 MCCIP Report Card on marine biodiversity legislation showed that climate change is likely to have significant impacts on the UK’s marine protected areas and their features but identified a lack of advice on how protected features should be managed to build resilience to climate change. MCCIP has therefore worked with some of the UK’s […]

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The significant role seagrass meadows play in supporting fisheries productivity and food security across the globe is not adequately reflected in the decisions made by authorities with statutory responsibility for their management. This paper reveals why seagrass meadows need targeted policies to recognize and protect their role in supporting fisheries production and food security. Seagrass […]

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