Mangroves are groups of trees and shrubs that grow on tropical coasts. They ‘dip’ their tangled roots into the water, causing sand to collect and creating safe places for marine animals to live and ...

Mangrove forests are “unexpectedly” important to the fish on neighboring coral reefs, says a research team that took a new approach to assessing the tree-fish connection. Biologists already knew that ...

Buzz, buzz, slap! This mosquito-ridden lagoon deep in the Zapata Swamp, the Caribbean's largest intact wetland, is ...

An increasing number of high impact scientific literature documents the global significance of mangrove forests. We often read about the importance of mangroves for supporting biodiversity of our ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was once Latin America's largest landfill. Now, a decade after Rio de Janeiro shut it down and redoubled efforts to recover the surrounding expanse of highly polluted swamp, crabs, ...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — On the southeastern coast of the city of Jayapura, Petronela Merauje walked from house to house in her floating village inviting women to join her the next morning in the ...

KETI BANDAR, Pakistan — Wildlife ranger Mohammad Jamali boats through mangrove forests of the Indus River Delta, the terminus of a curly waterway that begins thousands of miles upstream in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — In a bid to protect ...

KILIFI, Kenya, Aug 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A slight breeze makes the afternoon humidity bearable as Kibibi Mramba and 19 others plant tiny mangrove shoots along a creek in the Kenyan coastal ...