Extinction looms for amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds restricted to declining mangrove forests. Substantial numbers of terrestrial vertebrates are restricted to mangrove forests. Many of these ...
Oil from a wrecked tanker is creating a disaster in the waters of Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the largest contiguous tidal mangrove forest in the world and a haven for a spectacular array of species, ...
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 ...
GALVESTON, Texas — Texas bird watchers have a renewed sense of hope after a bird species that hadn’t been seen in Galveston in four decades made a surprising return last week. The mangrove cuckoo made ...
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 ...
Samantha Chapman receives funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation. With the help of technology, humans can traverse virtually every part of our planet’s surface. But animals and plants ...
July 26 is International Mangrove Day, dedicated to the unique forests that survive at the interface of land, river and sea. Mangroves protect coastlines from storm surges, filter out pollutants, and ...
Mangroves, once axed for development, are expanding across Florida due to climate change. Will Floridians learn to live with the iconic coastal tree? David Rahahę-tih Webb’s aquarium was more than ...
On December 26, 2004, a cataclysmic tsunami struck the coasts of countries in South and Southeast Asia. Sri Lanka was one of the worst affected nations – the wall of water devastated the island’s ...
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 ...
GALVESTON, Texas — Texas bird watchers have a renewed sense of hope after a bird species that hadn’t been seen in Galveston in four decades made a surprising return last week. The mangrove cuckoo made ...
GALVESTON, Texas — Texas bird watchers have a renewed sense of hope after a bird species that hadn’t been seen in Galveston in four decades made a surprising return last week. The mangrove cuckoo made ...