{"id":139031,"date":"2022-05-06T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-just-found-mountains-of-sugar-hidden-beneath-the-ocean"},"modified":"2022-05-06T20:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T01:23:40","slug":"scientists-just-found-mountains-of-sugar-hidden-beneath-the-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-just-found-mountains-of-sugar-hidden-beneath-the-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just found mountains of sugar hidden beneath the ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-mountains-of-sugar-hidden-beneath-the-ocean.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many coastal areas around the world are home to lush green meadows \u2014 all thanks to seagrasses.<\/p>\n<p>As the only flowering plants growing in marine environments, these meadows are magic: One square kilometer of seagrass stores nearly twice as much carbon as land-based forests, and it does so 35 times faster. This makes seagrasses one of the most efficient global sinks of carbon dioxide on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn\u2019t the only remarkable thing about them, a new study has revealed. Submerged beneath the waves, seagrass ecosystems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/951270\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> hold colossal reserves of sugar<\/a> we never knew existed before, with roughly 32 billion cans of Coca-Cola\u2019s worth of sweet stuff hiding in the seabed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many coastal areas around the world are home to lush green meadows \u2014 all thanks to seagrasses. As the only flowering plants growing in marine environments, these meadows are magic: One square kilometer of seagrass stores nearly twice as much carbon as land-based forests, and it does so 35 times faster. This makes seagrasses one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}