{"id":431,"date":"2019-10-01T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=431"},"modified":"2019-10-01T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:17:11","slug":"whales-worth-about-1-trillion-in-carbon-sequestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/01\/whales-worth-about-1-trillion-in-carbon-sequestration\/","title":{"rendered":"Whales worth about $1 trillion in carbon sequestration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/chart1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/chart1_lg-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/chart1_lg-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/chart1_lg-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/chart1_lg-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new analysis of whales suggests that each one is worth about $2 million in carbon sequestration &#8212; and the global population is thus worth about $1 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>How do whales sequester carbon? By eating stuff, getting big, then drifting to the bottom of the ocean after they die. This makes them carbon sinks on a scale even bigger than most trees<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2019\/09\/30\/whales-worth-about-1-trillion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whales worth about $1 trillion in carbon sequestration, analysis finds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/fandd\/2019\/12\/natures-solution-to-climate-change-chami.htm#author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature\u2019s Solution to Climate Change: A strategy to protect whales can limit greenhouse gases and global warming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of whales suggests that each one is worth about $2 million in carbon sequestration &#8212; and the global population is thus worth about $1 trillion. How do whales sequester carbon? By eating stuff, getting big, then drifting <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/01\/whales-worth-about-1-trillion-in-carbon-sequestration\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}