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 ...

Humans have lots of reasons to thank mangroves. These swampy, stilt-rooted trees store massive amounts of carbon on tropical shorelines, support nurseries for a wide variety of commercially important ...

MANILA, Philippines — Along a stretch of coastline, volunteers wade into shallow water, pressing mangrove seedlings into the mud — one by one, row after row. It is a familiar scene across the ...

Mangroves are incredibly productive coastal ecosystems found in the tropics and subtropics. These dense green forests are known for their bizarre-looking roots that poke up into the air from shallow ...

Rivers State on Nigeria’s coastline has some of Africa’s largest mangrove ecosystems. The Niger Delta itself contains the third-largest mangrove forest in the world. These trees support fisheries, ...