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 ...

We saw the green crowns of one of the least diverse of all tropical forests, where there is often but a single species of tree, the red mangrove. Salinity, storm waves, and oxygen-poor mud ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mangrove forests provide important ecosystem services, from acting as nurseries for fish to buffering coasts from storms. Mangroves along the ...