Study: Coastal seagrass increasingly being lost
Monday, June 29, 2009 - 16:42
in Earth & Climate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coastal development and declining water quality are threatening seagrasses worldwide, researchers report. A study of coastal grasses around the world shows that 58 percent of the seagrass meadows are in decline, according to a report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
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