The carbon that is captured by our ocean and coastal ecosystems is known as blue carbon. Mangroves can store around 163 grams of carbon per square metre every year. This makes them excellent air ...

During a recent examination of mud from a mangrove swamp in Sierra Leone it was found that despite a high (5 per cent) dilute acid-extractable aluminium content, there was practically no aluminium ...

Mangroves and seagrass are not only aesthetically pleasing to the landscapes above our waters, but they also play a vital role in the ecosystems under the water. Along the Indian River in Tequesta ...

In Benin, this precious and fragile ecosystem is threatened by deforestation ... mask representing thunder -- then took into the mangrove swamp by canoe. Chanting traditional songs, they tied ...

The Florida Everglades, described by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas as "a river of grass," are comprised of sawgrass marsh punctuated by cypress swamps and mangrove forests – an ecosystem ...