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Kelp forests are a fantastic resource for carbon sequestration, displaying one notable advantage in particular over other coastal carbon capture ecosystems. Typically, blue carbon networks like mangrove forests and seagrass meadows store carbon in their soil, but kelp is a rootless algae with a buoyancy that lifts them to the waterline, eventually breaking off from their hosts to drift into the open ocean, and finally sinking to the deep seafloor never to be disturbed 🌱