Dark green mangrove forests grow along shores from Indonesia to South Florida, with roots tangling out of the water. Scientists have continuously marveled at their myriad abilities: to survive in ...

The mangroves in Seychelles, Aldabra Island store vast amounts of carbon but are still threatened by climate impacts. Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images What to Expect as El Niño ...

A far-flung chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is encouraging the community-led replanting of mangroves – trees that have the power to stem the destructive force of hurricanes – not by hand but with ...

Researchers have identified a new reason to protect mangrove forests: they've been quietly keeping carbon out of Earth's atmosphere for the past 5,000 years. Researchers have identified a new reason ...

A new study shows that the mangrove forests along Brazil’s coast store up to 4.3 times more carbon in the top 1 meter (3 feet) of soil than any other biome in the country, including the Amazon ...

Is restoration enough? There are around 110,00 acres of land throughout the state of Florida. About 20-30 thousand of those acres are mangroves. Mangroves are a state-regulated species with many ...

Tourism in Sri Lanka -- the tropical island nation just a stone's throw from the tip of southern India -- is on an upswing, thanks to thousands of miles of sugar-sand coastline, lush interiors dotted ...

A recent paper modeled how restoring mangroves in front of water-controlling infrastructure like dikes might create a hybrid coastal defense system in the face of global sea level rise. The model ...

Mangrove forests in the Eastern Visayas region hold staggering amounts of carbon—averaging 387.4 megagrams of carbon per hectare, equivalent to nearly 1,432 megagrams of CO2 per hectare, according to ...

A volcanic eruption triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing ...