Inter Press Service: Fifty-five percent of global atmospheric carbon captured by living organisms happens in the ocean.Between 50-71 percent of this is captured by the ocean's vegetated "blue carbon" habitats, which cover less than 0.5 percent of the seabed, according to a 2009 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report entitled 'Blue Carbon - The role of healthy oceans in binding carbon,' one of the first documents to demystify the term. These recent discoveries - of the efficiency of ocean vegetation in...
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