Nearly every sunny windowsill at New River Middle School is occupied by a reused jar filled with a handful of pebbles, an ...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — On the southeastern coast of the city of Jayapura, Petronela Merauje walked from house to house in her floating village inviting women to join her the next morning in the ...

Mangroves, typical of tropical and subtropical latitudes, have become veritable natural traps for land- and sea-based waste.

Mangroves protect coasts and wildlife, but plastic waste now builds up inside roots, harming ecosystems and communities.

KUALA LUMPUR: More than 40,000 hectares of Malaysia’s mangrove forest, one of the country's key ecosystems, has been lost ...

Hainan Island is the smallest and southernmost province of China, the only one located fully in the tropics. It provides some of the most fascinating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the fossilized wood samples discovered on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. An ancient mangrove forest with trees that ...

Apple is on a mission to help save the world’s disappearing mangrove forests. Mangrove forests suck up a huge amount of carbon dioxide from the air. Half of all mangrove forests on Earth have been ...

OVER 40,000ha of mangrove forest has been lost since 2017, underscoring the serious decline of one of Malaysia's key ecosystems.

While mangroves along the roadside have been deliberately left intact, the interior sections are being systematically ...

A volcanic eruption triggered a sediment flow that preserved a mangrove forest around what is now Barro Colorado Island, providing a better glimpse of the vegetation that existed in a highly changing ...

It said that the "notable reduction" was caused by a combination of natural and human-induced factors. Read more at ...