More than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction, according to an assessment published in ...

Simple adaptations that allow mangroves to tolerate saltwater may help researchers engineer other plants to be more resilient ...

Gardens by the Bay principal horticulturalist Anton van der Schans (left) and mangrove specialist Augustino Mendez Perera collecting Ceriops australis propagules on Oct 19 in Hera, an area on ...

Saltwater would kill most plants, but it cannot fell the ancient mangroves species distinct for their giant stilt roots. So how do they survive on brine? International researchers and authors of a new ...

This frilly slug lives in the mangroves of southeastern Asia and Australia, lounging in shallow pools of water and scraping up algae from which it gains the ability to photosynthesize. When you ...

Mangrove trees and shrubs grow along tropical and subtropical coastlines, thriving in conditions that would kill most other plants. Mangroves also absorb a lot of excess carbon dioxide from the ...

Marco Fusi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Fifteen years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Sri Lanka’s government intends to keep expanding the island’s coastal green belt — the chain of mangrove swamps credited with limiting the damage and ...

Invasive species are harming the Florida ecosystem. Invasive species can cause human harm. You can help by not planting invasive species.