During this week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I encountered something rare and exciting: Hundreds of red mangrove seeds scattered across the shoreline. These long, torpedo-shaped seeds ...

Black Mangrove Seeds come from Black Mangrove shrubs/small trees, and they typically wash ashore every fall. There has been a large amount of the seeds washing ashore on Padre Island beaches recently.

During this week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I encountered something rare and exciting: hundreds of red mangrove seeds scattered across the shoreline. These long, torpedo-shaped seeds ...

Taking to the sky and pelting deteriorating wetlands with mangrove seeds has proven to be a quicker and cheaper way to get the plants established than the traditional method of taking long boat trips ...

Beachcombers on the Texas coast are stumbling across something unexpected: sleek, tropical seeds that look more like flying darts than anything native to the sea. The seeds—long, narrow, and ...

Red mangrove trees could become more pervasive in Texas, based on a recent discovery of its torpedo-shaped seeds on the state's shores. The appearance of the seeds, which measure around eight inches ...

Crabs love mangrove swamps. But the mangroves may not love them back. Crabs’ voracious appetite for mangrove seeds can be a prime reason why efforts to replant lost mangroves often fail. So keeping ...

Dropping mangrove seedlings from the air onto salt marshes in southeast Louisiana has the potential to reduce wetlands loss more cheaply and effectively than other coastal restoration techniques ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jonah Basi may be 16 years old and a junior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, but he’s got a big vision for what he wants South Florida to look like in the future. “I want to ...

We are sitting in a dusty park at the edge of an estuary in Barra de Santiago in the Ahuachapán Department of El Salvador. On the far side, a bank of mangroves marches into the water, and as the tide ...