Action needed to protect and restore saltmarshes that store carbon and protect against ...
A first-of-its-kind report has highlighted the role coastal habitats such as saltmarshes have in storing carbon, as well as ...
Calls to protect saltmarshes as vital carbon stores
A scheme to create a saltmarsh habitat more than 20 years ago is playing an important role today in protecting vital carbon ...
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Two surprising reasons behind the obesity epidemic: Too much salt, not enough water
It survives, barely, by eating the stems of Salicornia – the glasswort – a plant that looks a bit like asparagus. Although low in nutrients, the glasswort’s fleshy, succulent sap is filled ...
Plea to protect Essex saltmarshes that store carbon and help fight against climate change
The coastal habitats play a key role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, yet experts say they are at risk. | ITV ...
Panda6 天
UAE embraces halophytes for a sustainable food future
Emirates Nature-WWF, as part of a multi stakeholder project looking at nature-based solutions (NbS) in the UAE, is leading an ...
The Financial Times19 天
Salt of the Earth — ‘an impassioned call to protect the world’s precious salt marshes’
That final line conjures three of the plants — cordgrass, samphire and glasswort in English — that flourish in the marshes’ salty soil. Hunter was introduced to this hardy flora by another ...
AOL.co.uk4 天
Coastal saltmarsh plays role in carbon storage, flood prevention and wildlife
Plants such as sea aster, glasswort, sea lavender and golden samphire have recolonised the former fields, while nationally scarce shrubby sea blite grows in a raised area of the low-lying land.