You're transported to an ancient floodplain dotted with cypress, laurel, mangroves and various cone-bearing trees. Amazingly, it seems to have worked [source: NPS]. Panicked, you check your phone, but to no avail — you're in the late Cretaceous period. As the sobering realization sets ...
Large-scale onshore OTEC plants could have a considerable environmental impact on shorelines, which are often home to fragile, already threatened ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs. Photo: Onshore OTEC plants can take up a lot of valuable coastal land. This is the Natural Energy ...
Understanding migratory routes is essential for bird conservation. Many bird populations rely not just on their breeding and wintering grounds but also on habitats along their migration paths. By identifying these routes and habitats, conservationists can target key areas for the birds’ survival. Tenc...
Increasingly, fish and shrimp farms are filling the shortfall. Though touted as a solution to over fishing, many of them have—along with rampant coastal development, climate change and pollution—devastated the reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds where many commercially valuable fish hatch. Steven ...
Ao Phang Nga National Park has the largest mangrove forest in Thailand. Other than mangroves, one can see plants like pandanus, cycads, and euphorbias which grow on soil-less grounds such as the cracks of Ko Ta Pu. Under the shallow waters, one would see plankton in large numbers. Other...
One of the largest and most-populated, Hithadhoo is Maldives best island. With its southern floors being covered by mangroves, marshes, and shrubs, and the northern side being covered by an extensive number of cafes and bakeries serving scrumptious delicacies, this Island offers the best of both...
All told, mangroves help the world avoid some $80 billion a year in losses from floods, and they save billions more in other ways. Planting mangroves is much cheaper than building breakwaters, and the trees also improve the water quality. They’re a great investment. 3/ We’re going to ...
Degraders: Overfishing and coastal clearance for aquaculture; plastic and nutrient pollution; wastewater dischargeRestorers: Sustainable fishing, wastewater treatment, pollution control, management and restoration of coral reefs, mangroves and seagrasses ...
If and when the third wave of the pandemic hits Vizag, citizens learned from the second wave and are now better prepared for the third wave.
Coral reefs are the calcified marine structures formed by the exoskeletons of corals, and the three main kinds of plants that interact with coral reefs are algae, seagrasses and mangroves, with the algae being divided into red and green varieties. Many of these marine plants benefit the coral ...