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Australia’s seagrass could earn A$35 million in carbon credits each year, if we have a trading scheme. sandwichgirl/Flickr

Seagrass is a huge carbon store, but will government value it?

Australia is surrounded by a thin green line of seagrass meadows potentially worth A$5.4 billion on international carbon markets, and which could contribute to Australia and other nations meeting carbon…
Seagrass slows climate change by absorbing carbon but global warming is causing vast tracts of it to die off. http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfwc

Seagrass carbon sinks fast disappearing: study

Rising sea levels will lead to a drastic decline in seagrass stocks, a new study has found, but reducing water pollution may help offset the effects. Seagrass is crucial to slowing climate change because…
Seagrasses store carbon more efficiently than rainforests, making them a crucial part of climate change mitigation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alessiodl

Failure to protect seagrass may cost Australia $45b

Seagrass stores carbon 35 times faster than rainforests, preventing billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases escaping every year, but its crucial role in slowing climate change has been largely overlooked…
Vast meadows of seagrass are thought to be the oldest living things on the planet. Flickr/Submon

100,000-year-old seagrass could be the world’s oldest organism

An ancient seagrass that spans up to 15 kilometres and weighs more than 6,000 metric tonnes may be more than 100,000 years old - making it the oldest living organism, Australian researchers have found…

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