Eelgrass is a critical habitat for fish, protects against coastal erosion and stores carbon. But it's threatened by pollution and climate change. Dozens of local scientists are working to protect ...

Eelgrass is a ribbon-like seagrass and the meadows support the base of the marine food web. The grass provides habitat and food to organisms ranging from invertebrates to fish to waterfowl.

But eelgrass is disappearing rapidly around the globe, and in Canada, questions remain about where exactly these meadows are distributed, and how effective they are at storing carbon.

Eelgrass, or Zostera marina, is widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Along the Atlantic coast of the United States, eelgrass primarily thrives from Chesapeake Bay to Maine, but it is ...

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Now we’re in a place with this eelgrass protection zone to put some of these lessons to work in a new place, and this is a spectacular eelgrass bed.” Richardson Bay in the Sausalito area on ...

Why Eelgrass in the Atlantic Ocean Faces an Uphill Battle The Ice Age left the plant off our East Coast with less genetic diversity than its relative in the Pacific. Rebecca Dzombak, Hakai.

Eelgrass beds provide ideal nurseries for fish, crab and other animals. They anchor sediment, cycle excess nutrients and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. In Puget Sound, ...

“Eelgrass was once used all over [the world] to build houses, but the only women in the world who did it lived on Laeso,” he says. This isn’t your average building material.

Eelgrass may become the official marine flora of Massachusetts, thanks to a bill proposed by two North Shore teenagers who want recognition for this little-known but ecologically important plant.

Their method was to glue eelgrass seeds onto clams. About 20,000 seeds were then put in the Long Island Sound so the clams can bury into the seafloor and plant the seeds.