mangroves

The Key Biscayne Community Foundation’s Citizen Science Program and like-minded groups pulled 504 pounds of trash out of the mangroves at Peacock Park in Coconut Grove on Saturday.

Mangroves tamper down waves, keeping shorelines from eroding. And as storms become more intense and sea levels rise, their value will only become greater. But they are being chopped down faster than they can be replaced.

Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida's environment and can be a bonus for your property, too.

Researchers are focused on exploring more sustainable restoration methods.

Commissioner Joe Carollo had proposed changing city rules to ban planting new mangroves to protect waterfront views.

An ordinance proposed by City Commissioner Joe Carollo would outlaw planting new mangroves or other tall plants at city parks to protect water views.

'Living' shorelines featuring mangroves instead of plain seawalls are popular with environmentalists, but permitting and public resistance in Miami-Dade make them tough to build.

But within the slender, 30-mile long Mosquito Lagoon in Brevard and Volusia counties, mangroves are asserting dominance. Scientists think that mangroves have an ally in the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is trapping more of the sun’s heat and rapidly warming the planet.

South Florida artist Xavier Cortada is very concerned about sea-level rise and needs your help. For more than 15 years, Cortada has been painting colorful…

Four thousand years ago, rising seas decimated huge swaths of mangroves in Florida Bay.Today, seas rising at a far greater rate, combined with increasing…

A pair of Miami architects who infuriated neighbors and drew the scrutiny of county environmental regulators when they chopped down mangroves at their…

A couple researchers created fake mangroves in Manasota Key to bring back marine life that was lost from development. Along Florida’s coasts are...