A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the ...

The women of Chelem, a fishing community on the northern coast of the Mexican state of Yucatán, hadn’t planned to work in ...

Tropical coastal forests known as mangroves are known for being the first “buffer zones” in coastal systems. New research ...

The air in Basra carries a strange weight: part saline mist from the nearby Persian Gulf and part acrid smoke from the ...

Photo credit: José Alberto González Cáceres A network of nature trails winds through coastal hammocks and mangrove forests, offering glimpses of Florida ecosystems that have largely disappeared from ...

Indonesia’s forestry ministry has suspended the issuance of logging permits in Indonesia’s vast mangrove forests to protect the ecosystem and tap into carbon trading opportunities, a ministry official ...

These efforts demonstrate how traditional knowledge and modern conservation can work together to protect fragile ecosystems while creating meaningful experiences for visitors. A living mangrove ...

Blue carbon is the term used to denote carbon captured and stored by coastal wetlands, particularly mangroves, seagrass beds and salt marshes ecosystems. These ecosystems capture and store three-10 ...

All numbers in this diagram have units of watts per square meter ... and soil carbon stores of mangrove, seagrass, and salt marsh ecosystems • Calculation of effect sizes across all carbon cycling ...

Today, scientists follow in Muir’s footsteps by studying mangrove ecosystems up close in muddy, waterlogged environments. But unlike Muir, modern researchers also have access to satellite technology ...