ESMERALDAS, Ecuador (dpa) – Wherever shrimps are harvested in numbers along Ecuador’s Pacific coast, the topsy-turvy world of mangrove swamps has all but vanished. Replacing the tenacious plants which ...

A team of scientists discovered a macroscopic species of bacterium living in the waters off Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, shifting the scales of how big we thought bacteria could be. The newly ...

Florida’s mangroves play a key role in the health of the state’s coastal ecosystems, serving as nurseries for marine animals and providing a first line of defense against coastal erosion and storm ...

PROGRESO, Mexico (AP) — When a rotten egg smell rises from the mangrove swamps of southeast Mexico, something is going well. It means that this key coastal habitat for blunting hurricane impacts has ...

Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp. Most bacteria are microscopic — but this one is so big it can be seen with the naked eye. The thin white ...

Research just published by the American Geophysical Union digs deeper into the carbon-storing power of wetlands along North America’s Pacific coast A new paper featuring Hakai Institute researchers ...