On the western side of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, sits Myuna Bay, a quiet bay with meadows of seagrass ...

A Freeport nonprofit last week hosted an performance that combined science and storytelling about the importance of seagrass. The educational production “Becoming Seagrass” took to the mainstage of ...

New research shows that warming oceans harm seagrass not just through heat but through hidden microbes in the sediment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The grass is seldom greener these days on the underside of the Indian River Lagoon. For the past decade, the waterway has become a ...

Next time you go diving or snorkelling, have a close look at those wondrously long, bright green ribbons, waving with the ebb and flow of water. They are seagrasses – marine plants which produce ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — Martin County is expanding a project that helps clean and protect local waterways. Crews planted 2,200 seagrass plants in the Salerno Creek Stormwater Treatment area Friday ...

Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Seagrasses are more efficient at storing carbon in the soil or sediment, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seagrass meadows provide important foraging and nursery habitats for many fish and crustacean species. But warming ocean ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Noise pollution affects the structures within seagrass that help the marine plant detect gravity and store energy. Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online ...

At first glance, seagrass doesn’t look like much. It lies low, sways gently underwater, and is often mistaken for seaweed. Many people swim past it without a second thought. But beneath that quiet ...

For some coastal residents and visitors, seagrass is just a nuisance that gets stuck in your flip-flop or wrapped around your boat's propeller. But to biologists, seagrasses provide habitat and ...