Under the Mediterranean waters off Tunisia, gently waving green seagrass meadows provide vital marine habitats for the fishing fleets and an erosion buffer for
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Under the Mediterranean waters off Tunisia, gently waving green seagrass meadows provide vital marine habitats for fish and an erosion buffer for the beaches.
Seagrass is such a key store of carbon and producer of oxygen critical to slowing the devastating impacts of climate change that the Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative (MedWet) calls it “the lungs” of the sea.
Named Posidonia oceanica after the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, seagrass spans the Mediterranean seabed from Cyprus to Spain, sucking in carbon and curbing water acidity.
“Posidonia oceanica . is one of the most important sources of oxygen provided to coastal waters,”
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