Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida's environment, and they wear a lot of proverbial hats. Mangroves play a critical role in a lot of marine ecosystems: they filter the water, act as a ...

This week, The Nature Conservancy Florida released new research supporting the coastal protection and ecosystem benefits provided by mangrove forests. Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow on ...

In a recent commentary, The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, marvels over mangroves, the trees found in tropical coastline areas that are easily identifiable by the tangle of above-the-surface roots ...

Mangroves, once axed for development, are expanding across Florida due to climate change. Will Floridians learn to live with the iconic coastal tree? David Rahahę-tih Webb’s aquarium was more than ...

Two decades ago ecologist Ilka C. Feller heard about a plant advancing at an unprecedented rate into a coastal restoration site near Merritt Island on Florida’s Atlantic coast, midway between Miami ...

In industry risk models, mangroves significantly reduce surge and flood damages to properties built behind forests while properties built in front of mangroves face increased risks. SANTA CRUZ, Calif.

Note to audience: Andrew West is a multi-media photographer at the News-Press and Naples Daily News. He has been covering Southwest Florida since 1997. One of his favorite things to cover is the ...

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 ...

The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ecosystems A juvenile blacktip reef shark swims in shallow waters by the mangroves ...