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"To fight climate change, we need nature," Brian Juhyuk Lee, sustainability giving lead at Google.org, tells Good Good Good.
"To help nature survive climate change, we need more information."
That's why Google.org has invested $5 million in ManglarIA, a three-year project that aims to use artificial intelligence to better understand the health of the world's mangrove forests.
The shrubs and trees, which store carbon at four times the rate of other types of forests, "are an essential nature-based solution to climate change, providing vital levels of carbon sequestration and biodiversity to coastal ecosystems and economiesand it's critical that they are protected," Lee says in a press release.
Google chose the project from hundreds of submissions as part of its Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation grant program.
Over the next three years, the World Wildlife Foundation will install sensors in two biosphere reserves on Mexico's Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts.
These will include automated weather stations, water depth and salinity loggers, special drones, camera traps, and environmental DNA technology.
Researchers hope to learn things like how long it takes for mangroves to recover from tropical storms, which sites are best suited for restoration, how climate change affects mangroves' ability to store
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