Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture

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Battling climate change, Japan looks to seagrass for carbon capture

By Tom Bateman and Kiyoshi Takenaka YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) – On a recent Saturday, some 100 volunteers gathered on a popular beach in the Japanese port city of Yokohama, wading in the shallows to plant strands of light-green eelgrass on the seabed. What began as a project to restore the natural ecosystem along the coast of the city just south of Tokyo has taken on national importance: helping fight climate change as Japan aims to achieve carb…