This Week's challenge*
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*All ‘challenges’ must be undertaken with the supervision and at the discretion of a responsible adult
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Phytoplankton – free-floating microscopic plants in the sea – can help us combat climate change.When phytoplankton die and decompose some fall to the deep open floor trapping carbon.
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1.5oC global warming is predicted to see coral reefs declining by around 80%, 2oC could see more than 99% wiped out. (IPCC report 2019)
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The United Nations ‘Seaweed Manifesto’ is investigating options for underwater farming of seaweed – as a food? A biofuel? A ‘carbon store’?
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Blue Carbon refers to carbon that can be captured within ocean and coastal ecosystems – seagrasses, mangroves or salt marshes.We need to look after these coastal habitats.
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