A ‘Secret Weapon’ For Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back

A ‘Secret Weapon’ For Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back

A ‘Secret Weapon’ For Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. This story has been co-published by Reasons to be Cheerful and the Outrider Foundation. In late spring last year, Betty Hodgson, president of the Nova Scotia non-profit group Friends of the Pugwash Estuary, sat in the bow of a small boat with Kristina Boerder, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University. As they maneuvered the dingy through the shallow estuarine waters that flow undaunted into Canada’s Northumberland Strait, the pair leaned over the boat’s edge, scanning below the rippling surface for any sign of silvery-green ribboned blades of eelgrass. What they were really looking for was hope. Living in shallow water along the intertidal coastlines and estuaries of more than 190 countries, eelgrass, or Zostera marina , is part of the seagrass family…