mangroves

A tiny Central American country is charting a path to slowing climate change, while boosting the economy and making communities safer. A new Stanford-led study quantifies the value of…

Mangrove forests play a critical role in mitigating climate change by carbon sequestration. However, these habitats are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, urbanisation amongst other…

Mangroves are salt-tolerant plant communities found in tropical and subtropical intertidal regions. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: The Union Budget for 2023-24 announced…

By BRIAN INGANGA The village of Gazi Bay on Kenya's coast, just 55 kilometers (34 miles) south of bustling Mombasa and tucked away from the country's…

In an astonishing find, scientists have discovered the largest bacterium that is 5,000 times larger than most known bacteria and is even visible to the naked eye. The organism, Thiomargarita…

At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even lighter threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin…

As part of its work to support communities impacted by climate change, Appletoday announced a new partnership to protect an important mangrove ecosystem in the Raigad district of…

Per WWF, around 300-400 million people world-over depend on wetlands for their livelihoods or protection against floods and other storms. By Tejashree Joshi,  Biodiversity Hotspots…

The burning question going into the Glasgow climate summit is whether major economies can, by 2050, reduce emissions enough to deliver a carbon neutral world in which humanity no longer adds…