📰 Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study.
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study.Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems.
Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits.#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation
@joewynne How do you measure the monetary value of said pollution?
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@joewynne How do you measure the monetary value of said pollution?
@RavenLuni They explain in the article
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study.
Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems.
Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits.#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation
@joewynne there is another post from someone telling about how nitrogen is being captured in snow. My timeline somehow stacked your post right next:
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@joewynne there is another post from someone telling about how nitrogen is being captured in snow. My timeline somehow stacked your post right next:
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@ShaulaEvans @joewynne , so, as it turns out snow is also doing the chivalrous deed of encapsulating extra nitrogen and bringing it into the soil on the ground.
I just want people to know that snow can do it too. So mangroves and snow should be friends but, there is basically never any snow where you find mangroves...
It's like they just were like "we're both gonna do it but, we're gonna do it separately. You stay on your turf and I'll stay on mine!"
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@ShaulaEvans @joewynne , so, as it turns out snow is also doing the chivalrous deed of encapsulating extra nitrogen and bringing it into the soil on the ground.
I just want people to know that snow can do it too. So mangroves and snow should be friends but, there is basically never any snow where you find mangroves...
It's like they just were like "we're both gonna do it but, we're gonna do it separately. You stay on your turf and I'll stay on mine!"
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study.
Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems.
Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits.#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation
@joewynne @ShaulaEvans And they're full of beautiful, quirky, biodiversity that does weird, delightful things.
Like trees that put all the salt into selected sacrificial leaves that turn yellow and drop. Or the feisty fiddler crabs, who can be left- or right-handed, clawed???So cool.
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Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study.
Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems.
Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits.#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation
@joewynne
Also fish nurseries.
My father took me to see the last few mangroves in his area of Florida and described the shock and bewilderment of the fishing community (including the profitable leisure industry) at the results of developers being allowed to chop down the rest. -
Mangroves clean up $8.7 billion of nitrogen pollution annually, per study.
Nitrogen pollution is a known problem in agriculture, other human activities, and wreaks havoc in aquatic ecosystems.
Add this to mangroves being valuable carbon sinks, coastal defense against storm surges, a buffer against erosion, among other benefits.#SolarPunkSunday #Environment #Conservation #Pollution #Biodiversity #Mangroves #CoastalConservation
OK, so where's the nonprofit whose mission is planting new mangrove forests?
And how cool would it be to volunteer for a summer of mangrove husbandry?
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OK, so where's the nonprofit whose mission is planting new mangrove forests?
And how cool would it be to volunteer for a summer of mangrove husbandry?
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