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Coastal blue carbon refers to the carbon stored in the vegetation and soils of salt marshes (left), like this one at Assateague Island on the Maryland-Virginia shore; seagrass meadows (center), like this one in Tonga, in the South Pacific; and mangrove forests (right), like this one in Queensland, Australia. Photo by (left to right) Zach Frailey, Steven Lutz/GRID-Arendal, and David Unger. Used under a Creative Commons license.