800 Million Tons of Blue Carbon Lie Buried in U.S. Tidal Wetlands
Tidal wetlands in the contiguous U.S. can store roughly 800 million tons of carbon in their soils. That is the latest estimate from a team of over 30 scientists from across the U.S., published June 21 in Scientific Reports and led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. But even more surprising to the authors: As far as…