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This episode explores new research, which has found that seagrass can reduce coastal erosion by up to 70% thanks to its root mats binding the sand.

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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read ‘The Coast’ by Julia Randall here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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