Sweet!

From the "stranger than fiction" pile.

Scientists have discovered an undersea mountain of sugar.

Nope, not the opening line of the newest best selling children's book.  A real mountain of sugar, under the sea.

Apparently equivalent to 32 billion cans of Coke.

Okay, that's worldwide, but still.  

The culprit?  Seagrass.  It turns out that not only is seagrass one of the most potent plants in the world in terms of capturing carbon, making it a darling of those on the front lines of the fight against climate change, it also is an incredible sugar factory.  Seagrass produces far more sugar than it generally needs and stores the excess on the seafloor around its roots.

So yeah, an actual mountain of sugar.  If you are at all interested, the entire article is here.  There's also my previous article about a rice substitute being developed from seagrass as well, here.

Stranger than fiction science story, climate change weapon, tasty solution to global hunger AND an excellent opening line for the next bestselling children's novel.  

For its next trick? Cancer Cure? World Peace? Oscar Nomination?  

I wouldn't bet against it.