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Ever heard of blue carbon?
Blue carbon sounds cool, and it certainly is. Coastal ecosystems like tidal marshes, seagrass, and mangroves sequester and store carbon from the atmosphere at much higher concentrations than can be stored in forests on land. This carbon is called “blue” carbon and is now a central part of the conversation on climate change.
Can seaweed-eating cows help save the planet?
Ask anyone what the number one factor of climate change is, and you will likely receive a calamity of answers. From factories and cars to ocean impacts and deforestation, we have done a lot to the Earth. But what about agriculture? Livestock, including cattle, goats, and sheep, emit methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at quantities similar to the warming effect and global impact of the transportation industry...
The ocean is our garbage dump
What have we always done with garbage we don’t know what to do with? Easy… just dump it in the ocean! Throughout history, communities around the globe have dumped waste, from household trash to industrial byproducts, into the world’s oceans with the belief that water could mix and disperse unlimited amounts of anything...