Researchers compiled a dataset of 209 crustacean and 155 mollusk species from 16 mangrove forests around the world. They found that mangroves, when compared with other ecosystems, are among those with ...

Half of the world's mangrove ecosystems, with trees whose roots stretch down into brackish water, are at risk of collapse. That's according to the first assessment from the International Union for ...

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 ...

Carlos G. García-Quijano has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Sea Grant. Hilda Lloréns has received funding from 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 ...

Jean Wiener, executive director of the Fondation pour la Protection de la Biodiversité Marine, at a mangrove restoration in Caracol, northern Haiti. Conservationists in Haiti are helping to restore ...

Bordered by the sea on two sides and exposed to typhoons and rising sea levels, Vietnam’s Ca Mau province is among the most vulnerable regions of a country expected to face some of the worst future ...

Floridians are familiar with mangroves — but imagine them moving into Georgia or South Carolina. Why it matters: With the country experiencing fewer freeze events, mangroves that thrive in coastal ...

A roseate spoonbill searches or food at a mangrove key on Florida Bay at Everglades National Park, Fla. A city ordinance could ban the planting of more mangroves in Miami parks. As sea rise and ...