Sewage and agricultural pollution in rivers is having an "alarming" knock-on impact on marine life in underwater forests ...

The motorboat came to a stop offshore of the heart of Fort DeSoto, in a spot where lush mangroves blocked Monday’s blustery ...

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Thorsten Balke, a geographer from the University of Oldenburg in Germany, focuses on the conservation of coastal wetlands ...

A team of scientists and volunteers is racing to give nature a helping hand in Queensland's tropics — if nature's deadliest creatures don't get to them first. Cyclone Yasi destroyed seagrass meadows ...

Biscayne Bay owes a lot of its turquoise waters and world-famous fishing to extensive seagrass meadows that once covered large swaths of the bay bottom. But the lush grasses that produce oxygen and ...

Seagrasses form lush green meadows in many coastal areas around the world. These marine plants are one of the most efficient global sinks of carbon dioxide on Earth: One square kilometer of seagrass ...

I spent last summer wading through seagrass meadows across Northern Ireland, from the sheltered waters of Strangford Lough to ...

A new study in Ocean and Coastal Management shows that seagrass fisheries provide a reliable safety-net for poor, since fishermen perceive those habitats to maintain large fish catches over time.

Noise pollution affects the structures within seagrass that help the marine plant detect gravity and store energy. Alexis Rosenfeld / Getty Images This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online ...