It’s difficult to overstate how important mangrove forests are. Lawmakers take dramatic step to shield high-profile landmark ...

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.

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 ...

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

Each acre can store up to twice as much carbon as tropical rainforests, like the Amazon, and three to four times as much as other terrestrial forests. Mangroves are one of the most threatened ...

tropical cloud forest, and mangrove forest. These sub-biomes develop due to changes in seasonal patterns of rainfall, elevation and/or substrate. Located north and south of tropical forest biomes ...

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 ...

Siargao islanders who used to catch fish illegally and cut down mangroves now replant the trees and run ecotours to the community’s benefit.

The Indonesian Forestry Entrepreneurs Association (APHI) is intensifying efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change by ...

TACLOBAN CITY (PIA) — In the brackish borderlands where land and sea meet, the mangrove forest along the Cancabato Bay in ...