Mangrove plants, whose finger-like roots are known to protect coastal wetlands against the ocean and as important fish habitats, cover less than 0.1 percent of the global land surface yet account for ...

Community representatives and school children from the village of Vatutavui in Tavua took time off on Saturday (June 8th) to celebrate World Oceans Day by showing their support towards establishing a ...

Sitting in various corners and countertops in Sanibel homes, 140 young red mangroves soak up sunshine, waiting to be planted. Volunteers caring for the plants learned about the important role ...

Mangrove trees use changes in gene activity, including the activity of parasitic ‘jumping genes’, to increase their resilience to stress, a new study finds. Mangrove trees straddle the boundary ...

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 ...

PATE ISLAND, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When she was growing up, Tima Abudhi remembers watching her neighbours cut away at the mangrove forests around her village on Pate Island, on Kenya's ...

St. Augustine, FL – Researchers have observed an increase in mangrove trees in southern Amelia Island, Florida, in recent years. This is well north of the plant’s typical cold-sensitive habitat.

WASHINGTON -- Mangroves, the backbone of the tropical ocean coastlines, are far more important to the global ocean's biosphere than previously thought. And while the foul-smelling muddy forests may ...

Researchers have decoded the genome of the mangrove tree, Bruguiera gymnorhiza, and revealed how this species regulates its genes in order to cope with stress. Their findings could one day be used to ...

Mangroves are considered key in efforts to curb climate change Lamu County is home to more than 60% of Kenya's mangroves Loans help women keep their incomes while they conserve forests PATE ISLAND, ...