There are about 72 species of sea grass around the world, and while they cover about .1% of the seafloor, they play an important role in maintaining a healthy ocean. BORIS HORVAT/AFP via Getty Images ...

Starving manatees, vanishing trophy fish, bays turning from blue to mucky brown. These are all symptoms of nearly statewide seagrass die-offs that began in 2011 and continue to this day. Here&#8217… ...

Albert Tham, a local volunteer, tossed a metal square made out of soldered pieces of rebar into the ocean, marking an area of seagrass to examine. Wearing a borrowed snorkeling mask, Bangura stuck ...

While the effects of climate change and growing human impacts have accelerated seagrass loss in the last few decades, it’s not a new story. On the Eastern Shore of Virginia, a strong storm in ...

The seagrass survived, but the process wasn’t scalable—restoring thousands of acres through transplanting would have been a huge logistical challenge. So, says Orth, “We said, well, why not try to ...

A new study published in Ecological Applications thinks that seagrass meadows could be the answer to alleviating ocean acidification throughout the ocean. Ocean acidification is the process in which ...

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… ...

Based in San-Francisco, Ulysses’ goal is to restore ocean seagrass across the world to absorb carbon. Will O’Brien said this could be achieved up to 35 times more effectively than a rainforest ...

In fact, seagrass fields capture around 10 percent of ocean-based carbon. These underwater meadows are also highly efficient, taking in carbon 35 times faster than rainforests. The benefits to the ...

There are about 72 species of sea grass around the world, and while they cover about .1% of the seafloor, they play an important role in maintaining a healthy ocean. BORIS HORVAT/AFP via Getty Images ...