Seagrass restoration projects often involve divers planting seeds or shoots on the ocean floor. This process can slow and low-yielding, Oakes says. It can also be risky for divers working on the ...

Seagrass restoration projects often involve divers planting seeds or shoots on the ocean floor. This process can slow and low-yielding, Oakes says. It can also be risky for divers working on the ...

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.

Seagrass punches above its weight. The marine plant only occupies 0.1% of the ocean floor but can be credited with supporting marine ecosystems of plants and fish, filtering ocean water, and ...

Seagrass helps mitigate the effects of climate change through carbon sequestration. Despite covering only 0.1% of the ocean floor, seagrass meadows are incredibly effective carbon sinks and store up ...

Ulysses’s autonomous robot can be loaded with seeds and programmed to go to specific areas of the ocean floor to plant seagrass. Akhil Voorakkara, a co-founder and CEO at San Francisco-based ...

This gave researchers access to hours of footage of the ocean floor. The data they collected revealed a huge new seagrass ecosystem, stretching around 35,000 sq miles of Caribbean seabed in the ...

Found on seabeds from Alaska to Australia, seagrass meadows are one of the most widespread coastal habitats on Earth. While they cover just one thousandth of the ocean floor, these marine plants ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

A few months ago a worker on Key Biscayne noticed an odd looking sea grass in the bay. It turns out the grass made its way to South Florida from the Indian Ocean. Will it colonize, and what does it… ...