As climate change alters coastlines, mangroves are migrating inland and poleward — transforming ecosystems, disrupting ...

Florida Gulf Coast University students and staff worked alongside Island Coast High School students to plant a new mangrove ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has published a new study using ...

Mangroves in the Philippine city of Tacloban, the area hit hardest by one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, have ...

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 ...

MANILA—The Philippines has firmed up plans to develop a mangrove forest along the eastern seaboard of two islands hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan to act as a first-line of defense again the impact of ...

Imagine a natural fortress standing strong against raging storms. That's what mangroves and other forested wetlands do for our coastlines. But how well do they protect us, and against which storms?

Although preventing all the consequences of climate change is now impossible, we can adopt policies to mitigate its impact. In a set of policy recommendations, researchers examine the development of ...

SATJELIA, India, Jan 14 (Reuters) - On a warm November afternoon, Parul Haldar balanced precariously on the bow of a small wooden dinghy, pulling in a long net flecked with fish from the swirling ...

The total comprises 573.9 million scattered trees and 865.2 million trees grown in concentrated plantations, equivalent to ...

In industry risk models, mangroves significantly reduce surge and flood damages to properties built behind forests while properties built in front of mangroves face increased risks. (Image by J.