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No adults allowed! Lemon sharks learn to live and hunt in Caribbean mangrove forest nurseries and The Americas takes us inside.
The carbon that is captured by our ocean and coastal ecosystems is known as blue carbon. Mangroves can store around 163 grams of carbon per square metre every year. This makes them excellent air ...
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.
Project Coordinator Madson Galvão said the initiative is part of a larger education program dubbed Mangues da Amazônia (“Mangrove Swamps of the Amazon”), which was joined by some 2 thousand ...
Protecting and restoring seagrass, mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems —which account for more than 50 percent of all carbon storage in ocean sediments—could help absorb the equivalent of as ...
Washington — 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 ...
For example, mangrove systems along the Amazon coastline release about 8.4 million grams of dissolved neodymium into the ocean each year – 64 percent of the total neodymium input in this region.
Mangrove trees could start dying off within three decades if sea level rise continues to accelerate. Many coastlines around the world are protected by mangrove forests, which reduce the risk of ...
A new paper in Folia Primatologica theorizes that some 60 primate species and 20 wild cat species in Asia and Africa may be relying more on less-impacted environments such as swamp forests ...
WASHINGTON >> 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 ...