By Naina Rao For decades, Southeast Asia was the global epicenter of mangrove deforestation, but a recent study reveals a ...
Few trees can find a way to survive in the liminal space where dry land meets the sea. Mangroves are the exception. These impressively resilient trees can withstand rapidly shifting tides, ...
Standing knee-deep in coastal waters, environmentalist Andrea Pimentel guides workers as they drive bamboo poles into the ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mangrove restoration projects based on mass tree planting have often proved unsuccessful due to a focus on quantity rather than carefully selecting ...
Two decades ago ecologist Ilka C. Feller heard about a plant advancing at an unprecedented rate into a coastal restoration site near Merritt Island on Florida’s Atlantic coast, midway between Miami ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. After decades of crude oil spills and the introduction of invasive plant species, thousands of hectares of mangroves in the Niger Delta are ...
Rocking spidery legs and surrounded by stinky mud and hordes of insects ready to take a bite, the red mangrove was a hard tree to love. But its irreplaceable role in our ecosystems made it a tree we ...
The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ecosystems A juvenile blacktip reef shark swims in shallow waters by the mangroves ...