The Forest in the SeaBy: Anita Sanchez Series: Books for a Better Earth Meet an unlikely climate change hero: the wet, slimy stuff known as seaweed. Short Listed for the Green Earth Book Award Imagine forests where you can float weightlessly among schools of fish. Huge green pastures where sea turtles graze. Forests that capture carbon from seawater and breathe out oxygen. The answers to many of our planets problems may lie underwater, in these forests of seaweed.