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Mangrove forests aren’t very hospitable habitats, but these lemurs don’t mind.
Study shows mangrove forests along desert coasts have potential to lock up large amounts of carbon and buffer against rising seas.
Mangroves - one of the most important trees - are threatened by rising seas. While these forests can adapt, human development is getting in the way.
Indonesia is ranked among the world’s top dozen contributors to climate change – but a new study shows that protecting the country’s mangroves could slash its greenhouse gas emissions.
Mangroves, hectare for hectare, store more carbon than any other forests. But they are also among the most threatened. New projects in Indonesia show how mangroves might be restored.
Our Tropical Future: A new report on the State of the Tropics has revealed rapid changes in human and environmental health in the Earth’s tropical regions. This is the final in a four-part series about…
Following typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines’ Department for Environment and Natural Resources has earmarked around US$8m to fund efforts to replant much of the affected coastal zone with mangrove forests…
One hundred grams of farmed prawns can have a carbon footprint equivalent to burning 90 liters of gasoline, and 10 times…
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Research Associate, Institute of Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience & Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Biology, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Coastal Flood Risk, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Mangrove Ecology, James Cook University
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Professor in School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences; and Director of Environmental Futures Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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Professor in Environment and Development, University of Leeds
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Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Climatology, Director, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania
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Honorary Adviser on Burma for the State of the Tropics, James Cook University
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