If any single event was a watershed for conservation of the world's mangrove forests, it was the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The day after Christmas that year, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake thundered ...

KETI BANDAR, Pakistan — Wildlife ranger Mohammad Jamali boats through mangrove forests of the Indus River Delta, the terminus of a curly waterway that begins thousands of miles upstream in the ...

One of the largest mangrove forestation efforts in the world is in Pakistan. It takes place in the Indus River Delta, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island. Mangroves are a powerhouse of absorbing ...

59 year old Torika Lewaca, is one of the many fisher women here in Tavualevu village, in Tavua, on the north western side of Fiji’s Viti Levu Island, that depend on mangroves within their traditional ...

MANGROVES, along with tidal marshes and seagrasses, are increasingly recognized as vital "blue carbon" ecosystems. In ...

I met Jefrin Zendrato years ago, after a huge tsunami wiped out his village of Moawo on the remote Indonesian island of Nias. I was covering the aftermath of the disaster, and I found the little boy ...

Some teen-agers collect posters, others collect records. At Chamberlain High School, some collect mangroves. For two years, marine biology students at the school have collected, raised and planted ...

A roseate spoonbill searches or food at a mangrove key on Florida Bay at Everglades National Park, Fla. A city ordinance could ban the planting of more mangroves in Miami parks. As sea rise and ...

A Miami city commissioner who proposed banning new mangroves at city parks to protect waterfront views said Tuesday he plans to drop the controversial move. The proposed ordinance, which would outlaw ...

An initiative to revive the Indus River hopes to save this major waterway from overuse and pollution. Some 240 million people are riding on the... Pakistan is planting lots of mangroves — but it's ...