Scientists in the Asia and Pacific region, with support from the IAEA, have successfully identified sources of carbon stocked in mangrove soils — an important step toward improving the management and ...

STUDENT: Since the mangroves live in waterlogged soil, they have aerial roots sticking out of the ground so they can get oxygen into the roots. STUDENT: They have buttress roots where they keep ...

In the southeastern state of Espírito Santo, Bernardino collects data on mangroves. When the tide is out, he and his colleagues wade into the tangle of roots. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANA CAROLINE DE LIMA ...

Mangrove roots trap sediment as currents carrying suspended particles are intercepted and slowed. Between the carbon sequestered below-ground, and the sediment trapped within the tangle of roots ...

In the Sundarbans, endangered tigers are at home in the mangrove forests. Tigers are good swimmers, which helps them get around in this watery region. Fringing the land with long, twisted roots ...

Kolkata: Mangroves are retuning to Kolkata after centuries, taking roots along the Hooghly riverbank, and in such numbers that Botanic Garden has taken up a plantation project along a 1.6km stretch.