“Blue carbon” is the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems. These ecosystems include everything from mangroves to seagrass beds and salt marshes. The World Bank's first-of-its-kind blue ...

Many residents and visitors see Louisiana's wetlands as priceless. But one group is trying to show how much value they really ...

Serina Wittyngham led the study as a postdoctoral researcher working in the lab of co-author Matt Kirwan, coastal geologist and professor at the Batten School & VIMS. She notes that blue carbon ...

Ghana’s coastal ecosystems are key to combating climate change. The report "Ghana: A Blue Carbon Readiness Assessment" ...

"Although coastal engineering is very expensive, coastal blue carbon is probably about the lowest cost option that we've got," said Prof Stephen Pacala, from Princeton University, who chaired the ...

They also store so-called "blue carbon"—carbon that stays trapped in the ocean and in coastal ecosystems for a long time and therefore cannot have a climate-damaging effect as carbon dioxide (CO 2).

This work has produced 14 senior theses and several publications by Bates College faculty and colleagues, including the recent publication of Coastal Blue Carbon: methods for assessing carbon stocks ...

A key part of this is protecting and restoring coastal “blue carbon” habitats: mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrasses, kelp forests, mussel beds and other habitats can all help fight climate change by ...

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Coastal Xiangshan county in Zhejiang province has turned to blue carbon trading to use the power of the market to mitigate carbon emissions and make a profit. Zhu Wenrong ...

ABU DHABI, 23rd November, 2014 (WAM) -- The Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative, AGEDI, supported by the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, EAD, has launched Phase II of its ‘Blue Carbon’ ...

Contribute to the conservation of coastal ecosystems and mitigation of global warming through blue carbon ! Elucidation of blue carbon dynamics and assessment of ecosystem services based on new ...