TAMPA, Fla. — As climatologists predict more frequent and stronger storms, Florida coastlines face the risk of erosion. But now, there is a bill in the state legislature that aims to help our shores ...

Saltwater would kill most plants, but it cannot fell the ancient mangroves species distinct for their giant stilt roots. So how do they survive on brine? International researchers and authors of a new ...

MIAMI — It’s a steep drop into a mangrove forest brimming with three feet of brackish water over thick, twisty tree roots, but Andrew Otazo has no trouble navigating the descent. He scrambles down the ...

Deep in the muddy mangroves, giant crabs bury themselves under layers of sand and roots. Hunting them means digging with bare hands, feeling blindly for armored claws that can crush with bone-breaking ...

With hands and legs coated in sandy soil from planting, we run to the sea, mangroves rising around us like a cathedral. In the water, my eyes well up from the human spirit striking again: Puerto ...

A curious trend is underway in Southwest Florida. Young red mangroves trees, some with nicknames like Rosie, Penelope and Dingle, are being adopted and raised in backyard gardens, at restaurant host ...

Yemenis who fled Houthi areas of this divided country paint a grim picture of life under the militant group. People are forced to attend rallies and chant death to America and Israel, pay crippling ...

The Department of Environmental Protection and Indian River County are investigating illegal mangrove-clearing and Indian River Lagoon water pollution. In 2023, Sandpiper Bay Resort in Port St. Lucie ...

Deep in the wilds of remote Australia, I set out on a mission to track down massive mudcrabs and uncover some of the region’s rarest wildlife. Navigating mangroves, tidal flats, and untouched ...

Paddling south from highway 41 along the Turner River, the South Florida scenery quickly turns positively prehistoric. Schools of mullet and yard-long gar glide below my kayak, while black willows and ...