A hectare of mangrove can store three to five times more carbon than a tropical forest, and most of it is indeed locked in the anaerobic mud—the peat—where decomposition barely happens. But counting this blue carbon is the tricky part, relying on sediment cores and questionable carbon credit methodologies that often ignore local fisherfolk. I know this because my team's field data from the Sundarbans was once smoothed over by a consultancy's report to make the credits more marketable. So you see, the science is clear, but the ledger… the ledger often has its own *adda*.
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