May 21, 2021
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For the first time since scientists recognized the carbon-sequestration power of mangroves, known as blue carbon, the carbon value of a mangrove ecosystem – a 11,000-hectare mangrove forest in Cispata, Colombia – has been fully calculated. The new measurement accounts for not just the roots, trunk and foliage of the tree, as was previously done, but the even greater amounts of carbon stored in the sediment as well.
