Why are Blue Forests Useful?

Blue forests provide key ecosystem services like fish nurseries and grazing areas, coastline protection from storms and erosion, carbon storage, and much more. Watch to learn about the many benefits[...]

Blue Carbon Explained 1

Blue forests made of marine plants and seaweeds protect our coasts, support biodiversity and capture carbon. Unfortunately, we already lost half of these important and fragile ecosystems worldwide. As[...]

What are Blue Forests?

Blue forests – seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, kelp forests, rockweed, and salt marshes – are coastal and marine ecosystems that sequester carbon and provide a multitude of ecosystem services [...]

Hvilken nytte har vi av blå skog?

Blå skoger gir viktige økosystemtjenester som fiskebarnehager og beiteområder, kystbeskyttelse mot stormer og erosjon, karbonlagring og mye mer. Se videoen for å lære mer om disse tjenestene so[...]

Tahiry Honko – a community mangrove carbon project

GRID-Arendal produced an update to this video originally created by Blue Ventures at https://vimeo.com/131638557 Learn how Madagascar's first mangrove carbon project is catalysing locally-led mangrov[...]

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Ocean Carbon Dioxide levels. An invisible time bomb?

Ocean Acidification is perhaps the most well publicised consequence of increased levels of carbon dioxide being absorbed by our oceans. But as the oceans also absorb vast quantities of heat from ou[...]

How are Blue Forests Threatened in Norway?

Blue forests around the world are disappearing at an alarming rate mostly due to human impacts and climate change. Watch to learn more about the underlying causes threatening blue forests, and how t[...]