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New research shows that mangroves store not only organic carbon but also highly stable black carbon in their soils.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Rising sea levels have driven most families from this small village in Indonesia's Central Java province to higher ground.

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 ...

At the rear of Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet from a previously deforested area. The 30,000 trees, planted by non-profit organization Instituto ...

BASRA, Iraq, June 29 (Reuters) - As Aymen al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke rising over the skyline behind him shows the ecological ...

The glossy leaves and branching roots of mangroves are downright eye-catching, and now a study finds that the moon plays a special role in the vigor of these trees. Mangroves are coastal trees that ...

Over the past 15 years, erosion has claimed half of Bedono Village, located in Indonesia's Central Java Province. While the village’s mangrove vegetation has been partially destroyed due to ...

This article is part of a USA TODAY Network reporting project called "Perilous Course," a collaborative examination of how people up and down the East Coast are grappling with the climate crisis.