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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the same time, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

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

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

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

A nine-hectare mangrove area in the coastal village of Paraiso here is being eyed as urban green space in the bid to boost ...

Mangroves, trees and shrubs that flourish in salty tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate coastal waters, form lush swaths of forests that serve important ecological and economic functions.