Taken together, some 70 species of mangroves are found in 123 tropical and sub-tropical nations and territories but occupy just 152,000 square km in total -- an area slightly larger than Nepal.

A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the ...

Researchers from the Yale School of the Environment recently published a paper in the Global Change Biology on mangrove forest resilience to natural disasters such as hurricanes. Mangroves are a type ...

Their loss contributed 0. 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions related to tropical forest deforestation, despite occupying <0. 1% of all land area. Even with a small footprint, over 200 million ...

Along Australia's tropical coastlines dense mangrove forests play a protective role, sheltering nurseries of creatures and ...

IPOH: To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tsunami tragedy at the Changkat Keruing forest in Manjung, a non-governmental organisation planted about 700 mangrove trees. Environmental ...