Covering only 0.1% of the ocean floor, these seagrass meadows provide food and shelter to thousands of species of fish, seahorses, turtles, etc. and sustain some of the world’s largest fisheries.

Essential to the ocean ecosystem, seagrass meadows not only provide sanctuary and food for marine life and birds, filter water, protect coastlines, and bury carbon, but they also absorb as much as ...

Lahai Turay carries metal squares used to measure the density of seagrass while others record data in the shallow water off Sei island. (Guy Peterson for The Washington Post) Warning: This graphic ...

Our planet is heating up. This is known as global warming. Carbon dioxide is one of the gases which contributes to this process. It is known as a greenhouse gas, this means that it traps heat in ...

Seagrass is a complex ‘forest’ that supports and protects many animals, and increases the organic enrichment of the sand and muds around the root systems. This is a vital shelter and food source for ...

Our planet is heating up. This is known as global warming. Carbon dioxide is one of the gases which contributes to this process. It is known as a greenhouse gas, this means that it traps heat in ...

It’s an eye-opening monitoring program to document the health and status of seagrass in upper Charlotte Harbor and Lemon Bay. The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences ...