Sea level rise is outpacing South Florida’s coastal wetlands, according to a new FIU study. That means the iconic twisted and long-legged roots of South Florida’s mangroves could be drowned by rapidly ...

NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) satellite images have unveiled a concerning phenomenon in Florida: the emergence of ...

Hurricane Irma devastated mangroves already living on the edge, according to a new study from FIU and East Carolina University. Even the most salt-tolerant species of mangroves in the Everglades ...

Researchers examined how Hurricane Irma fertilized mangroves in the Florida Coastal Everglades by comparing storm deposits and nutrient inputs across mangrove sites, and found that hurricane-induced ...

The Florida Everglades, described by writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas as "a river of grass," are comprised of sawgrass marsh punctuated by cypress swamps and mangrove forests – an ecosystem unlike ...

The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ecosystems A juvenile blacktip reef shark swims in shallow waters by the mangroves ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Everglades National Park ...

The wind howled, hurling the sand like thousands of tiny daggers against my legs. The clouds on the horizon flashed with light. A cold wave ripped the sand out from under me. But I didn’t care. And in ...

Spanning more than 800 square miles of wetlands, Everglades National Park is the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States—a place where land and water blur into one. While you can drive ...

NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) satellite images have unveiled a concerning phenomenon in Florida: the emergence of "ghost forests" in the state's mangrove ecosystems. These watery graveyards ...