{"668276":{"#nid":"668276","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Experts Mitigate Climate Change Through Restoration Of Coastal Ecosystems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne of the primary drivers of climate change is excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Mitigating climate change in the coming century will require both decarbonization \u2014 electrifying the power grid or reducing fossil fuel-guzzling transportation \u2014 and removing already existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a process called carbon dioxide removal. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University have released research proposing a novel pathway involving seagrass and mangroves \u2014 known as blue carbon ecosystems \u2014 that naturally capture carbon through photosynthesis, which converts carbon dioxide into living tissue. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/reinhard-dr-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, is a co-author of the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne of the primary drivers of climate change is excess greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Mitigating climate change in the coming century will require both decarbonization \u2014 electrifying the power grid or reducing fossil fuel-guzzling transportation \u2014 and removing already existing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a process called carbon dioxide removal. Researchers at Georgia Tech and Yale University have released research proposing a novel pathway involving seagrass and mangroves \u2014 known as blue carbon ecosystems \u2014 that naturally capture carbon through photosynthesis, which converts carbon dioxide into living tissue. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/reinhard-dr-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, is a co-author of the research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-06-29 15:36:37","changed_gmt":"2023-06-29 15:36:37","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"India Education Diary","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/indiaeducationdiary.in\/experts-mitigate-climate-change-through-restoration-of-coastal-ecosystems\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"170504","name":"Chris Reinhard"},{"id":"1702","name":"carbon capture"},{"id":"192756","name":"coastal ecosystems"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}