{"id":29639,"date":"2025-08-22T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29639"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:35:37","slug":"blue-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/blue-carbon\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Blue Carbon Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seaweed farming has emerged as a potential Blue Carbon strategy, yet empirical estimates of carbon burial from such farms remain lacking in the literature. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Blue Carbon<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blue Carbon refers to<\/span><b> organic carbon captured and stored by the ocean in vegetated coastal ecosystem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s such as mangrove forests, saltmarshes, or seagrass meadows.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBlue\u201d refers to the watery nature of this storage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> vast majority<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of blue carbon is <\/span><b>carbon dioxide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that has <\/span><b>dissolved directly into the ocean.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much<\/span><b> smaller amounts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are stored<\/span><b> in underwater sediments, coastal vegetation, and soils; carbon-containing molecules<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as DNA and proteins; and ocean life from whales to phytoplankton.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These ecosystems <\/span><b>store massive amounts of carbon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, making them an integral part of global efforts to combat climate change. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">They cover just<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> 2% of the total ocean surface<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but account for <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">50% of the ocean\u2019s carbon absorption.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/388120274_Carbon_burial_in_sediments_below_seaweed_farms_matches_that_of_Blue_Carbon_habitats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Carbon refers to carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems like mangroves, seagrasses, and salt marshes, crucial for climate change mitigation. Read more about Blue Carbon, Significance, Degradation, Facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2309],"class_list":{"0":"post-29639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-blue-carbon","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}