Once considered the ugly duckling of environmental conservation, seagrass is emerging as a powerful tool for climate action. From drawing down carbon to filtering plastic pollution, marine scientist Carlos M. Duarte details the incredible things this oceanic hero does for our planet — and shows ingenious ways he and his team are protecting and rebuilding marine life.
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Amazing tune creation
March 6, 2022 at 4:06 pm
Hlo everybody
How is your life going after connecting TED
Sir Derty ♦
March 6, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Safe to you, and good health. Bring unity. Stop the division. Cheers.
Random Certainty
March 6, 2022 at 4:09 pm
Earth will find a way to replenish and rejuvenate…eventually at the expense of our species…it does not discriminate.
We are the ungrateful renters of time.
cbren
March 6, 2022 at 4:09 pm
This is a little gem of good news. Thanks for your work which is probably under appreciated.
We need this video to get out there. It is a piece of the jigsaw back despite us being late.
God bless your work.
MRS WYSM INC
March 6, 2022 at 4:10 pm
The Planet Earth has survived on its own for millions of years. Stay Strong and take notes!!!!
Gamesman01
March 6, 2022 at 5:46 pm
The problem isn’t Earth’s survival but our survival and the ecosystem we depend on. Even if we ignore the obvious problems and go the way of the dinosaurs new life will emerge slowly and the Earth will have a different ecosystem. We are killing off our own life-support.
Sir Derty ♦
March 6, 2022 at 4:11 pm
Ted talk, I have a lot of growing up around these areas.. please do more research and content on these plant that are leaking into our local waters!! The leaking turkey point plant in Miami (leaking radiation isotopes from the under water salt water plume underneath the cooling ponds of these power plants). Turkey Point is a major concern and leaking into this very bay (National park as well, called the Biscayne Bay) This again is a national park and a major health concern for South Florida residents. If you even have to remove this comment for youtuber censorship purpose (believe me it erases this comment often for some odd reason) yet its all true, please share this information and lets fix Turkey Point.
Sir Derty ♦
March 6, 2022 at 4:17 pm
NYTimes and the Miami Herald / MiamiNewTimes reporters have talked about this but the companies are using internet teams to cover it up and put it under the rug.
NYTimes Turkey Point Miami Plant Leak into Water… there is many articles to dig and find but like i said companies paid to bury things online have made it hard to find the truth.
Sir Derty ♦
March 6, 2022 at 8:28 pm
i appreciate those thumbs up, thank you peeps.
Jakariya Easy English
March 6, 2022 at 4:16 pm
Right
Debra Worden Nunziato
March 6, 2022 at 4:18 pm
AMAZING!!! 🤩🌱💗 Life / Water holds memory. Imagine the memories in that age old LIFE? I will keep using the Mantra… Heal the Water! 💧 Heal the World 🌎 ✌️💗🙌
Michael McCulley
March 6, 2022 at 5:09 pm
The Water, Quartz and Bloodlines all contain the Akashic Record. I dig it.
Florian Hansch
March 6, 2022 at 4:26 pm
What I find amazing is that 97% of Co2 is naturally occurring. And storms are linked for solar activity.
Arturo Gómez Tagle
March 7, 2022 at 8:17 am
What about pollution and oceanic dead zones due to toxic runoff?
Florian Hansch
March 7, 2022 at 7:12 pm
@Arturo Gómez Tagle no denying any of that my friend, I wish I could ban plastics today, but you must understand climate change is natural, if it was not most of Europe would still be covered in Ice. Destruction of the eco system is man made 100%.
Brett
March 6, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Storms and wildfires are NOT more common today. There used to be many more fires in the first half of the 20th century. Storms are just as common and just as severe as they’ve always been. When will people realize they are being lied to?
Mean Gene The Killing Machine
March 6, 2022 at 4:44 pm
Amazing how God plans everything out. Amazing.
Carter Strasser
March 6, 2022 at 4:53 pm
What!? CO2 can be converted to biomaterial without billions of American tax dollars?! No no no! Unacceptable! This man is a herititc!
sunita bhosle
March 6, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Very informative and interesting knowledge…
Ligia Sommers
March 6, 2022 at 5:27 pm
🙏🏻🍀💚
Dequentin Webber
March 6, 2022 at 5:41 pm
That’s amazing
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March 6, 2022 at 6:06 pm
Jesus loves you he died on the cross for your sins. All you have to do is believe in him and you will be saved. ❤
CloakedCedric
March 6, 2022 at 6:46 pm
Great hopeful talk!
taleton
March 6, 2022 at 7:02 pm
Thanks Dr. Carlos M. Duarte…. Thank you
Veritas Experience
March 6, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Wonderful presentation. Those 12 minutes ate me up and i have nothing to do with marine biology. Thoroughly informative and interesting from beginning to end. More sea grass please! Restore, protect, rebuild our marine ecosystems.
TwoMeterTroll
March 6, 2022 at 7:33 pm
40 bloody years ago we identified that sea grass was important to all fisheries and all ocean health, the crabbers and other fishermen went to our governments to try and protect the meadows and we got shut down over and over again. now because an egghead its suddenly become freeking critical. maybe the scientific community should actually bloody listen to the folks that have been out there for freeking centuries. we freeking warned about the kelp forests and got shut down mangroves and got shut down, warned about bottom trawling and got shut down tried to set up brood areas and got shut down tried to protect spawning rivers and got shut down tried to set aside oceanic preservation areas and got shut down. time after time our warnings went unheeded and now every bloody punk with a degree is screaming that the ocean is on the edge. where where you people when it bloody counted? oh thats right you where telling us it was our freeking imaginations that our fisheries where in decline because our log books where not accurate freeking data.
Jennifer Ning
March 6, 2022 at 7:35 pm
Putin is taking advantage of climate change and make the liberal and leftists really really stupid And cost Ukraine people losing their lives !!!
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Home Wall
March 7, 2022 at 1:27 am
The ocean is huge and a key part of growing seagrass but also seaweed that we can eat. It doesn’t need fresh water and it consumes carbon and it even provides a home for many other sea creatures.
HunterHQ
March 8, 2022 at 10:24 am
Algae in freshwater if they can grow it to help control climate too and substitute some plastics
Rezin 8
March 7, 2022 at 4:04 am
With directed evolution this genome needs to be extended to other species
Rezin 8
March 7, 2022 at 4:05 am
If only biodome project knew this
Rezin 8
March 7, 2022 at 4:07 am
Could concrete be made with this seagrass? ⚖⚠️
CaptMants
March 7, 2022 at 4:15 am
I felt like I was back in college lol, professor
Kevin Wells
March 7, 2022 at 4:26 am
Fantastic. This is much needed. Now let’s get the word out to everyone. I love Oceanography as it, haven taken some courses in college… even then I realized how little we knew. Now I see we still know barely anything, but you just opened something great. We never really talked about sea grass (40 years ago)… I really loved being instructed by you on this. Good luck.
Arturo Gómez Tagle
March 7, 2022 at 8:16 am
How cool! Another reason to justify our nonstop consumption and pollution!!
Yvonne R
March 7, 2022 at 9:40 pm
Do the sea grasses that live along lakes have the same effect?
support Truckers Now !!!
March 8, 2022 at 1:39 am
Green energy nut rolls… You f****** are unbelievable where is the science… . Inmates are running asylum
Regan Parenton
March 8, 2022 at 1:49 am
Every single person will be dead from climate change & biodiversity loss by 2040.
Charlie Z
March 8, 2022 at 2:04 am
Sounds like the more we get to know this ‘ugly duckling’ the more it begins to looks like the ‘swan’ for helping to restore marine ecosystems. Bravo Carlos and thanks for sharing this knowledge!