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Apr 28, 2022 · From Lake Huron, Michigan, to Kazakhstan's famous Lake Kaindy, explore 12 otherworldly underwater forests, their history, and environmental value.
A submerged forest is the in situ remains of trees, especially tree stumps, that lie submerged beneath a bay, sea, ocean, lake, or other body of water.
The Underwater Forest details the discovery and exploration of an ancient cypress forest found sixty feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, due south of Gulf Shores, Alabama. The forest dates to an ice age more than 60,000 years ago, when sea levels were about 400 feet lower than they are today.
Healthy kelp forests maintain the existence of thousands of plants and animals, fish stocks, and many ocean and tourism-based businesses. All of these require a thriving ocean ecosystem. We all depend on the ocean for food, oxygen, and even life-saving pharmaceuticals.
Sep 19, 2022 · Hidden underwater are huge kelp and seaweed forests, stretching much further than we previously realised. Few are even named. But their lush canopies are home to huge numbers of marine species.
Jul 24, 2013 · Scientists are exploring a submerged forest of bald cypress trees off the coast of Alabama in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Katrina is thought to have uncovered it.
Sep 16, 2022 · The world's ocean forests, we found, cover an area twice the size of India. These seaweed forests face threats from marine heatwaves and climate change. But they may also hold part of the answer, with their ability to grow quickly and sequester carbon.
Mar 24, 2020 · Picture the large, slimy pieces of seaweed you find on the beach, instead interconnected along the ocean floor, forming an underwater forest ecosystem. New research suggests that macroalgae may play an important role in addressing climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Feb 11, 2014 · In Lake Kaindy, trees poke from the water’s surface like misplaced toothpicks, presenting an intriguing portrait for visitors and tourists. This incredible sunken forest was created in 1911 as a byproduct of the 7.7 magnitude Kebin earthquake.
Jul 18, 2017 · An ancient underwater forest found south of Alabama's Gulf Shores in the Gulf of Mexico could provide a time capsule to a pre-human era on Earth.
