Mangroves play key carbon storage role in S'pore

A team of researchers, co-led by Asst Prof Daniel Friess from the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, has found that the mangroves in Singapore, which cover just 960 hectares or less than 1 per cent of the land here, store 450,571.7 tonnes of carbon. This is equivalent to 1,652,096 tonnes of stored carbon dioxide (C02) or 3.7 per cent of Singapore's national C02 emissions in 2010.

• The Straits Times, 8 January 2016, Science, pB12