New research reveals that the UK seabed could annually capture almost three times the amount of carbon absorbed by UK forests. This groundbreaking study, conducted by the Blue Carbon Mapping Project, highlights the vast potential of sea mud in carbon sequestration.
The UK seabed could annually capture almost three times the carbon soaked up by UK forests, according to new research. It is a staggering peer-reviewed data breakthrough.Snettisham, Norfolk where you gaze upon mudflats literally as far as the human eye can see and beyond. The desert-like wet wasteland of The Wash.
Standing gazing on The Wash’s brown vastness with me, scientist Tom Brook who’s come all the way from Oban in the Highlands to record an interview. He is one of the key researchers of this project: The UK seabed could annually capture almost three times the carbon soaked up by UK forests. It is a staggering peer-reviewed data breakthrough.
Now this frontier science from the genteel surroundings of Oban is changing all that. So, bring on the noise they say – for mud.“It’s the dominant marine habitat around these isles but it’s been largely ignored. We know it is teeming with animal life but now carbon too. We don’t ignore our forests. We should not ignore our mud.”“It’s very hard to find any undisturbed mud around the UK or globally. And that is because we are not protecting it in the way we might protect other marine environments.
Perhaps scientists wanting to make a noise about mud are pushing at an open door with a government elected by landslide on a distinctly green ticket and with this year’s COP global climate fast approaching, they want the government to listen and act.
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