As scientific discoveries continue to amaze living beings, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have found that the beds of large water bodies are filled with mountains of sugar—so much so that it is the equivalent of “32 billion cans”. was assumed to be. Coke”!
scientist found that there were heaps and heaps of sugar under seagrass meadows in the world’s oceans. This is because seagrass meadows are extremely efficient at capturing carbon, and are one of the top carbon capturing ecosystems in the world.
In their study, the experts further said that one square kilometer of sea grass accumulates almost twice as much carbon as forests on land, and 35 times faster.
Therefore, when sea level When these grasslands were inspected, it was found that there is a huge amount of sugar in their soil.
Manuel Liebke, who heads the research group, said the enormous amount of sugar is about 80 times higher than previously measured sugar in marine environments.
“To put this in perspective: We estimate that there are between 0.6 and 1.3 million tons of sugar worldwide, mainly in the form of sucrose, in the rhizosphere of seagrasses … That amounts to about 32 billion cans of sugar in coke. equals!” he said.
While this is an extremely new discovery, seagrass meadows are among the most threatened habitats on Earth. According to the institute, they are rapidly declining in all oceans and may already be losing up to a third of the world’s seagrass.
libke Some insight on this sheds, saying, “Given how much of the blue carbon captured by the world’s ocean and coastal ecosystems is lost when seagrass communities are destroyed, our research clearly Shows: It’s not only sea grass, but it’s also the bottom of living seagrass contains large amounts of sucrose resulting in a loss of stored carbon.”
“Our calculations show that if sucrose in the seagrass rhizosphere were degraded by microbes, at least 1.54 million tons of carbon dioxide would be released into the atmosphere worldwide … that’s about 330,000 a year.” Equals the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by cars.” he added.