Mangrove forests around the world provide a largely overlooked nitrogen-pollution cleanup service — one that, if humans had to pay for it, would cost $8.7 billion per year, a new study estimates.

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A fisherman casts a net in a lagoon surrounded by mangrove forests in Sri Lanka. The plants are disappearing quickly because of human development. Rising sea levels kill off mangroves. As the climate ...

The glossy leaves and branching roots of mangroves are downright eye-catching, and now a study finds that the moon plays a special role in the vigor of these trees. Mangroves are coastal trees that ...

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 ...

This video shows the Sundarbans, Bangladesh, a massive mangrove forest landscape crossed by winding muddy rivers and dense ...

A Port St. Lucie resort that illegally hacked about 944 mangrove trees to nubs last year has planted about 2,780 new ones, which the state will inspect and monitor quarterly in the first year and ...

BASRA, Iraq, June 29 (Reuters) - As Aymen al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke rising over the skyline behind him shows the ecological ...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Nearly two years later, the impacts of Hurricane Ian are still very visible in some of Florida's west coast communities hardest hit. It's also spurring some teens to embark on ...