Seagrasses trap carbon and protect marine life. Their decline risks releasing stored carbon, impacting climate.

finding that most seagrass meadows face multiple combined threats, including coastal development and pollution to impacts from things like boating, destructive fishing and aquaculture. Strikingly, ...

Seagrass meadows have been removed to suit the tastes of tourists and saltmarshes -- like many wetlands -- have been dredged and developed in ways that expose them to pollution ... a climate-friendly ...

At each site, they first created gaps in the seagrass meadows and then monitored both ... many turtles or fish graze on seagrass, additional pollution—such as fertilizers from agriculture ...

This method can be used to estimate how much plastic pollution is present in everything ... including mangroves, seagrass meadows and mud from the main tidal channels. The result?

After two unsuccessful attempts to find seagrass in this group of islands, he questioned whether the shadowy blotches were meadows of the ... stretched past the plastic 12-inch ruler he’d ...

It’s hard to overstate the ecological importance of seagrass. Manatees, known as sea cows, graze on seagrasses for hours on end. The dwarf seahorse, native to the Laguna Madre, uses the meadows to ...

Seagrass sod transplantation: A relevant tool for preventing the destruction of meadows in coastal construction projects. Environmental Challenges , 2025; 18: 101087 DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2025. ...

Seagrass growing near inlets that flush polluted water out to sea have fared better in Biscayne Bay that meadows growing in more stagnant areas with higher levels of nutrient pollution.

Yet, the health of our seas is in decline and they are at threat from pollution, unsustainable human activity and climate change As part of this UK wide project, WWF Cymru are working with local ...

finding that most seagrass meadows face multiple combined threats, including coastal development and pollution to impacts from things like boating, destructive fishing and aquaculture. Strikingly ...