Blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses absorb and store carbon, helping fight climate change.

"Mangroves, expanding with the warming climate, are re-shaping the Texas coast" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages ...

Right now, we’re seeing a lot of salt marsh mosquitoes, which come from local mangrove swamps. They can be more aggressive than other breeds, but experts are doing what they can to treat specific ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, rare manatee calves have been spotted in the ...

Scenic reeds of grass appear everywhere along the backsides of our barrier islands and you can’t get to the beach without seeing salt marsh from local bridges. But over the past 24 years we are seeing ...

The world lost 1,453 square kilometers (561 square miles) of salt marsh between 2000 and 2019, an area twice the size of Singapore, according to a new study based on satellite imagery. In addition to ...

The threat of storm surges and erosion and the struggle for survival of several species in the Indian River Lagoon are not new challenges to our local environment. But even though they are ever ...

The climate change-induced expansion of mangroves into salt marshes could significantly alter the carbon (C) storage capacity of coastal wetlands, which have the highest average C storage per land ...

Within a coastal refuge of tiny islands and sea water saltier than the ocean is a climate battle among natural Florida’s titans. It’s happening in Central Florida’s remote and alluring Mosquito Lagoon ...

Within a coastal refuge of tiny islands and sea water saltier than the ocean is a climate battle among natural Florida’s titans. It’s happening in Central Florida’s remote and alluring Mosquito Lagoon ...