Nearly 200 kilometers from the sea, red mangroves thrive in the rainforests along the San Pedro Mártir River on the Yucatán Peninsula. But how did these tangled trees that typically grow in salty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Note to audience: Andrew West is a multi-media photographer at the News-Press and Naples Daily News. He has been covering ...

The familiar floppy flowers of the magnolia tree are thought to be as old as the dinosaurs, which likely grazed among them. The domestic apple tree, that staple of American culture and lore, actually ...

During this week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I encountered something rare and exciting: hundreds of red mangrove seeds scattered across the shoreline. These long, torpedo-shaped seeds ...

If you venture deep into the heart of the Yucatan Peninsula, you just might find a relic of Earth’s ancient past along a swampy riverbed. And it’s unlike anything else. Mangroves exist on coastlines — ...

In Brazil’s North region, members of the population of red mangrove trees (Rhizophora mangle) do not often meet relatives from the South and vice-versa. However, occasional migrations via ocean ...

Sula E Vanderplank is an adjunct professor at San Diego State University. This story originally published in The Conversation. The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Dr. Scott F. Jones, an assistant professor of biology at the University of North Florida, has played a crucial role in discovering mangrove trees in southern Georgia, marking the ...

A new study concludes that the presence of inland mangroves along a river in southern Mexico was the result of climate change-driven sea level rise during the Pleistocene Epoch, some 115,000 to ...

Note to audience: Andrew West is a multi-media photographer at the News-Press and Naples Daily News. He has been covering Southwest Florida since 1997. One of his favorite things to cover is the ...