ABU DHABI — Against the heat, urbanization and sand of the United Arab Emirates, the placid, muddy waterways of the Gulf state’s coastal mangroves are being restored and planted in an ambitious fight ...

Every step into the muck produced a sulfurous stink in the midday heat. But the 33 Florida SouthWestern State College students were on a mission this week just north of the Punta Rassa boat ramp: ...

Rina Sarkar, a 'tiger widow' in the Sunderbans, joins 150 local women in planting 2,000 mangrove saplings, as part of an initiative to combat climate change's adverse effects. The region's tiger ...

BALIK PULAU: It might have felt icky at first but once they got used to the mud, they could focus on the task of getting all 6,490 ­mangrove tree seedlings planted before the high tide rolled in. “My ...

Researchers found that short, stunted mangroves living along the coastal desert of Baja California store up to five times more carbon below ground than their lush, tropical counterparts. The new study ...

The mangrove forests in the Guyanas (French Guiana, Surinam and Guyana), which spread across the Orinoco and Amazon deltas, are among the most extensive in the world. This particular ecosystem, ...

We waded into the muddy mangroves hoping to find dinner—and nearly lost a finger instead. The crab we found was massive, ...

A fisherman casts a net in a lagoon surrounded by mangrove forests in Sri Lanka. The plants are disappearing quickly because of human development. Rising sea levels kill off mangroves. As the climate ...

A view of a young grey mangrove (avicennia marina), which can grow in highly saline water, most commonly in the UAE, at the Eastern Mangrove National Park, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 5, ...