Blue carbon

here’s huge potential for the continent’s coastal habitats to help balance Australia’s carbon emissions. Australia is ringed by seagrass beds, mangrove forests, tidal marshes and kelp forests, all of which sequester and hold huge amounts of ‘blue carbon’. from the atmosphere just as terrestrial vegetation does. But carbon isn’t stored only in plant tissues in these habitats, it’s also sequestered in huge amounts in their sediments.