An environmental education project promoted by the nonprofit Peabiru Institute gives students a chance to learn more about ...

Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia’s carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the ...

Swiss Re’s study also noted the financial implications of coastal habitat degradation. One analysis in Florida estimated that ...

Natural habitats like mangrove swamps and salt marshes can provide significant protection against storms and help reduce ...

These soggy spots have been dismissed as inhospitable smudges on the map — even serving as a metaphor for corruption that ...

Southeast Asia is home to some of the world's largest areas of tropical peatlands and mangroves. These ecosystems share water ...

A new study reveals that peatlands—a vital carbon store that many people have never heard of—are dangerously under-protected, ...

SINGAPORE – Conserving the remaining, nearly intact peatlands and mangroves of South-east Asia – the region’s green lungs – ...

Rivers, marshes, bogs, mangroves, mudflats, ponds, swamps, billabongs, lagoons, lakes, and floodplains are among the types of ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.