Caribbean seagrasses provide about $255 billion in services to society annually, including $88.3 billion in carbon storage, according to a new study. The study has put a dollar value on the many services — from storm protection to fish habitat to carbon storage — provided by seagrasses across the Caribbean, which holds up to half the world’s seagrass meadows by surface area and contains about one-third of the carbon stored in seagrasses worldwide.
