Photo of the day

Today we celebrate the International Day for the Conservation of Mangrove Ecosystems, the ocean-loving and carbon-hungry halophytes that help to protect coasts through their dense tangle of roots and foundation of bound sandy sediment. Mangrove forests aren’t just shoreline heroes — they sequester carbon too. In a single square mile, mangrove forests store as much carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 90,000 cars! 🚗🌿