00:03humans take a lot of natural phenomena for granted and one of those things are these kelp forests
00:08that reside under the surface of our oceans these veritable underwater jungles are a habitat for
00:14countless creatures and they extend along a third of all coastlines around the planet anthropologists
00:19even believe these forests are responsible for allowing the human population to colonize new
00:24parts of the world some 20 000 years ago and now experts have quantified just how much these
00:29subsurface gardens are worse in terms of dollars using human proximity data and fish and invertebrate
00:35surveys across multiple different types of kelp in all of our planet's oceans researchers have now
00:39discovered they are responsible for adding twenty nine thousand eight hundred and fifty one dollars
00:44to fisheries around the world for every 2.5 acres of kelp forests annually they do more than just
00:49provide a habitat they also help sequester greenhouse gases out of the air just like trees do meaning
00:55they also pull nearly seventy four thousand dollars worth of nitrogen and around one hundred and sixty
01:00four thousand dollars worth of carbon per 2.5 acres every year as well meaning kelp forests contribute
01:06some five hundred billion dollars per year to economies around the globe but as we continue to
01:10pollute the ocean they're suffering meaning someday we could lose these carbon eating fish housing economy
01:16boosting underwater forests
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