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 ...

If methods for growing more eelgrass from seed are successfully developed for bio-based building, it’s possible that from it even more eelgrass could be propagated into the wild.

Eelgrass, a humble aquatic flowering plant that recently made headlines for its newfound ability to cut down dangerous pathogens in seafood, is a slippery superstar of Puget Sound. Beds of the ...

MALIKO’MIJK, Canada — Decades ago, the sea around Maliko’mijk Island was an expansive green carpet of eelgrass, the meadows so thick that members of the Pictou Landing First Nation had to ...

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 ...

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.

The last floating home in Marin County's ecologically fragile Richardson Bay has been removed following a state mandate to protect area eelgrass that is a vital part of the water's ecosystem, a ...

Oregon wants to protect eelgrass. But the state isn’t stopping mechanical oyster harvesting from ripping it up on public lands Updated: Sep. 09, 2024, 8:38 a.m.

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, a type of seagrass, nearly completely died off in the Morro Bay estuary from 2007 to 2016. Restoration efforts have spurred a massive recovery.

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.