Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock Mangroves might not look like much. Yes, they can have strange aerial roots. Yes, they’re surrounded by oozing mud.

Beyond their inherent value as living organisms, mangrove trees are vital when it comes to protecting healthy waters and fisheries and even human development. A 2019 study from The Nature Conservancy ...

Taking to the sky and pelting deteriorating wetlands with mangrove seeds has proven to be a quicker and cheaper way to get the plants established than the traditional method of taking long boat trips ...

Extent of mangroves in Southeast Asia. Image courtesy of NASA and the US Geological Society. Click to enlarge. Mangroves reduce wave height by as much as 66 percent over 100 meters of forest providing ...

Dropping mangrove seedlings from the air onto salt marshes in southeast Louisiana has the potential to reduce wetlands loss more cheaply and effectively than other coastal restoration techniques ...

The loss of mangrove forests worldwide is slowing, except in Asia, where there’s been a massive increase in deforestation over the past 30 years. Previous mangrove restoration projects have proved ...

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 ...