SciDev.Net: Crops such as sweet sorghum planted on China’s coasts could act as a carbon sink. Protecting China’s coastal ecology from land reclamation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, benefit the coastal economy and highlight the carbon-trading potential of coastal energy crops, say Jiang Gaoming, Dou Guanyi and Chen Bosen in an article in China Dialogue. China’s mangrove forest area has fallen from 500 to 150 square kilometres over the past 60 years as a result of reclamation and …