“Seagrass – also known as eelgrass – covers just 0.2% of the seabed, yet it accounts for 10% of the ocean’s capacity to store carbon, according to the United Nations Environment Program. It can capture carbon from the atmosphere 35 times _...Read More_

When Brent Hughes started studying the seagrass beds of Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Monterey Bay on California’s central coast, he was surprised by what he found. In this highly polluted estuary, excessive nutrients from agricultural _...Read More_