Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

WWF works with communities and governments to restore and protect mangroves, support livelihoods, and strengthen policies for ...

Mangroves, typical of tropical and subtropical latitudes, have become veritable natural traps for land- and sea-based waste.

Mangrove forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle, particularly within the marine carbon system. Growing ...

Scientists have optimized a protocol to achieve a higher quantity and quality of isolated RNA from mangrove root tissues rich in secondary metabolites. The secondary metabolite content in mangrove ...

Mangroves are valuable precisely because they thrive in one of the harshest environments known to trees: the intertidal zone. Salt exposure from daily inundation with seawater can cause physiological ...

How mangrove roots interact with water flow is believed to be a key element in mitigating coastal erosion. Researchers are the first to quantify the optimal mangrove root hydrodynamic with a ...

Mother Nature’s best barriers and protection for coastal communities are mangroves. They defend us against storm surge, currents, high waves and tides. Not only do mangroves serve as a natural ...

Mangroves may not be the first thing you picture when you think 'forest', but they're both incredible, unique ecosystems and serve as a kind of structural and water-quality coastguard. And while ...

Mangroves are known to trap plastic waste and stop it entering the sea, but this defense comes at a high cost to mangrove forests themselves, a new study shows. Researchers working in Indonesia’s ...

Solar stills can be a very useful way to produce drinking water from dirty or salty water, but there’s plenty of room for improvements in efficiency. Now, engineers at Virginia Tech have developed a ...

Mangrove vegetation, which grows naturally in subtropical shorelines, provides a wide range of ecosystem functions such as reducing coastal erosion, promoting biodiversity, and removing nitrogen, ...