Mangroves are these amazing thickets of trees, sort of forests, if you think of them, that grow in salt water in coastal regions, and interfacing between ocean and land. Mangroves do these amazing ...

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

Half of the world's mangrove ecosystems, with trees whose roots stretch down into brackish water, are at risk of collapse. That's according to the first assessment from the International Union for ...

PORT ARANSAS — Dead mangroves cover Harbor Island near this coastal city, creating a bleak landscape that contrasts with the calm, blue water that laps at the shore. The intense 2021 winter freeze ...

Even seemingly small discoveries can illustrate the outsized impact of a warming planet. That was the case recently when three curious nature explorers confirmed that a prominent tropical plant ...

Mangrove forests, located along tropical and subtropical coastlines, are increasingly recognized for their role in buffering ...

The Madden Julian Oscillation, by it's full name, is one of our "intra-seasonal" mechanisms we track to monitor for the potential for tropical development. The MJO is an organized wave of showers and ...

Ed Proffitt, a professor of marine ecology at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, left, and Max Portmann, a PhD student with the Proffitt-Delvin Lab of Coastal Ecology and Genetics, look at a young black ...