Dunedin, Florida emphasizes the need to protect local mangroves for coastal protection and marine life support.

Mangroves are special as they’re able to tolerate high amounts of salt and live along coasts, also protecting them against ...

Are there wild animals or plants in your local park that you never saw as a child? If so, they might be arriving because of ongoing climate change. For the first time, a large group of mangroves have ...

July 26 is International Mangrove Day, dedicated to the unique forests that survive at the interface of land, river and sea. Mangroves protect coastlines from storm surges, filter out pollutants, and ...

HANOI - Rising sea levels linked to global warming threaten economically, ecologically and culturally important mangrove forests in Pacific island states. The warning comes in a study published today ...

Mangrove forests, found around tropical and subtropical shorelines, provide a multitude of environmental and economic benefits to coastal systems around the world. In addition to providing habitats ...

Mangrove plants, whose finger-like roots are known to protect coastal wetlands against the ocean and as important fish habitats, cover less than 0.1 percent of the global land surface yet account for ...

Mangroves in the Philippine city of Tacloban, the area hit hardest by one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, have ...

GETTING about 260 volunteers to plant 6,490 mangrove tree seedlings is almost like mobili­sing a small army. Read full story ...

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WASHINGTON -- Mangroves, the backbone of the tropical ocean coastlines, are far more important to the global ocean's biosphere than previously thought. And while the foul-smelling muddy forests may ...