Sexing up seagrass to avert irreversible climate change

Did you know seagrass absorbs up to 35% more atmospheric carbon dioxide per hectare than tropical rainforests? And did you know these beautiful underwater flowering plants are under threat and disappearing at a rate of 100km²/year? Let Ceri Fielding turn you on to the wonder and importance of seagrass in this blog article, ‘Sexing up seagrass to avert irreversible climate change’.

El Niño

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is studied in many branches of science and mathematics due to its significance in affecting weather systems throughout the world. Techniques such as Single Value Decomposition (SVD) and the Fast Fourier Transform are used in this report to detect the ENSO and we analyse the effect of the ENSO on sea surface temperatures.