mangroves

Protecting mangroves allows for a global savings of 855,000 million dollars in flood protection.

Mangroves have shown to have an economic value estimated at $855 billion for their flood protection services worldwide. A recent study by the Coastal Climate Resilience Center at UC Santa Cruz, led by Pelayo Menéndez and Michael W. Beck, highlights...

Women of the Mangrove: Guardians of Life in the Colombian Pacific

Every morning, a group of women from the Colombian Pacific coast sails towards the mangrove of the region in search of pianguas. The pianguas are small mollusks that grow among the roots of these coastal forests, which are part...

Mexico anticipates mangrove loss and has developed a tool for monitoring.

In Baja California Sur (Mexico), the Mangrove Threat Index (IAM) has been developed, a scientific tool that evaluates the vulnerability and loss of mangroves to human activities to anticipate their deterioration and focus on their conservation. Created by researchers led...

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Living on the edge of danger: houses built on risky slopes in Bolivia

Surrounded by built and destroyed homes on a hillside in La Paz (Bolivia), at the end of a collapsed...