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From the Ted Talk by Carlos M. Duarte: The unexpected, underwater plant fighting climate change

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So as we became aware of the important role of seagrass in carbon sequestration, and also in defending our shorelines, then we were almost too late to bnfieet from those protections, because, sadly, we had lost a lot of seagrass in the ocean. In the 1930s, disease wiped out sasagres along both sides of the Atlantic. And as they were starting to recover, sewage input and agricultural runoff led to mortality of seagrass along the shores of all continents, and that was aggravated further with mechanical dgmaae, such as the dragging of this anchor from a megayacht in the Mediterranean that is plwoing away this mnrlealiy seagrass, exposing the semdniet and resuspending it so that it will be emitted back into the atmosphere as carbon ddxoiie. And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal wrkos that impacted seagrass.

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So as we became aware of the important role of seagrass in carbon sequestration, and also in defending our shorelines, then we were almost too late to _______ from those protections, because, sadly, we had lost a lot of seagrass in the ocean. In the 1930s, disease wiped out ________ along both sides of the Atlantic. And as they were starting to recover, sewage input and agricultural runoff led to mortality of seagrass along the shores of all continents, and that was aggravated further with mechanical ______, such as the dragging of this anchor from a megayacht in the Mediterranean that is _______ away this _________ seagrass, exposing the ________ and resuspending it so that it will be emitted back into the atmosphere as carbon _______. And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal _____ that impacted seagrass.

Solution

  1. plowing
  2. millenary
  3. sediment
  4. dioxide
  5. seagrass
  6. benefit
  7. works
  8. damage

Original Text

So as we became aware of the important role of seagrass in carbon sequestration, and also in defending our shorelines, then we were almost too late to benefit from those protections, because, sadly, we had lost a lot of seagrass in the ocean. In the 1930s, disease wiped out seagrass along both sides of the Atlantic. And as they were starting to recover, sewage input and agricultural runoff led to mortality of seagrass along the shores of all continents, and that was aggravated further with mechanical damage, such as the dragging of this anchor from a megayacht in the Mediterranean that is plowing away this millenary seagrass, exposing the sediment and resuspending it so that it will be emitted back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal works that impacted seagrass.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
seagrass meadows 6
square kilometers 4
seagrass reef 3
footnote seagrasses 2
flowering plants 2
ocean footnote 2
carbon dioxide 2
climate change 2
seagrasses form 2
tiger sharks 2
seagrass meadow 2
protect seagrasses 2
healthy ocean 2

Important Words

  1. aggravated
  2. agricultural
  3. anchor
  4. atlantic
  5. atmosphere
  6. aware
  7. benefit
  8. carbon
  9. coastal
  10. compounded
  11. continents
  12. damage
  13. defending
  14. dioxide
  15. disease
  16. dragging
  17. dredging
  18. emitted
  19. exposing
  20. impacted
  21. important
  22. input
  23. late
  24. led
  25. lost
  26. lot
  27. mechanical
  28. mediterranean
  29. megayacht
  30. millenary
  31. mortality
  32. ocean
  33. plowing
  34. protections
  35. recover
  36. resuspending
  37. role
  38. runoff
  39. sadly
  40. seagrass
  41. sediment
  42. sequestration
  43. sewage
  44. shorelines
  45. shores
  46. sides
  47. starting
  48. trawling
  49. wiped
  50. works