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Coastal ecosystems worldwide: Billion-dollar carbon reservoirs

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-07-12

Australia's coastal ecosystems alone save the rest of the world around $23 billion US a year by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. This is according to calculations just published by researchers at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), GEOMAR Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).

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https://phys.org/news/2021-07-coastal-ecosystems-worldwide-billion-dollar-carbon.html