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.

They are usually below 5 cm in size and live attached to a piece of seagrass or seaweed throughout their lives. They catch small amounts of food by stretching out their minute tentacles into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Parry said seagrass acted "like a filter to remove organic carbon from the water" The largest seagrass restoration project in the UK has come to an end after five years of work, with some ...

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 ...

This Specialist Group (SSG) contributes to and encourages seagrass science and conservation. Fred Short is an oceanographer and a Research Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the ...

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 ...