News tagged with mangrove forests
Living on the edge: An innovative model of mangrove-hammock boundaries in Florida
The key to understanding how future hurricanes and sea level rise may trigger changes to South Florida's native coastal forests lurks below the surface, according to a new model linking coastal forests to groundwater. Just ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Rare, once-royal turtle to be tracked in Cambodia
(AP) -- One of the world's most endangered turtles has been released into a Cambodian river with a satellite transmitter attached to its shell to track how it will navigate through commercial fishing grounds ...
Jan 21, 2012 |
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Mapping mangrove biomass
A comparison of three techniques to detect changes in mangrove forest areas suggests one gives more reliable results than the other two, and this finding will help researchers better understand growth and ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Declining mangroves shield against global warming
Mangroves, which have declined by up to half over the last 50 years, are an important bulkhead against climate change, a study released on Sunday has shown for the first time.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 03, 2011 |
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Battle on paradise Philippine island
For tourists the Philippine island of Palawan seems like paradise, but for environment activists it feels more akin to a battlefield.
Mar 07, 2011 |
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Root of the matter: A new map shows life-saving forests' scarcity defies past estimates
Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami that killed more than 230,000 coastal residents in Indonesia, India, Thailand and Sri Lanka. In ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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New satellite data reveals true decline of world's mangrove forests
New satellite imagery has given scientists the most comprehensive and exact data on the distribution and decline of mangrove forests from across the world. The research, carried out by scientists from the U.S Geological Survey ...
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Researcher Nets First Measure of Africa's Coastal Forests
Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations' biggest agricultural exports. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2009 |
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No ivory-billed woodpecker, but plenty of data
(PhysOrg.com) -- They have searched the old-growth forests of the Carolinas, the swamps of Arkansas, the woods of Alabama and Mississippi, and now the vast river of grass, mangrove, cypress and wildlife that ...
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Mangrove-dependent animals globally threatened
More than 40 percent of a sample of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds that are restricted to mangrove ecosystems are globally threatened with extinction, according to an assessment published in the July/August issue ...
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Research finds mangroves being fed to death
(PhysOrg.com) -- New UQ Science research has found the increase in nutrients coming out of our river systems is putting pressure on our mangrove forests and making them far more susceptible to environmental ...
May 19, 2009 |
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Mangroves Save Lives In Storms
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly ...
Apr 14, 2009 |
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