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A new report put out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) demonstrates that coastal marine environments are highly efficient at sequestering carbon, so are vitally important to protect.
Coastal marine environments like mangroves and seagrass meadows capture carbon from the air and use their long root systems to bury it deep within the soil. Host Jeff Young talks with Emily Pidgeon, the director of the Marine Climate Change Program at Conservation International. Dr. Pidgeon speaks about a recent report that demonstrates how these coastal marine areas are 50 percent more efficient at burying carbon than tropical forests.