Those plans include putting in three limestone breakwater barriers separating the navigational channels and backside of the three mangrove islands, ultimately blocking wave activity. "It will ...

On Sunday, December 26, twenty years ago, Indonesia and 13 countries adjacent to the Indian Ocean witnessed a tsunami, which ...

The Wave Attenuation Devices are being installed in the lagoon about 400-feet from the shoreline and will be visible about ...

Mangroves in Alice Town, Bahamas (Photo by Jessica Kendall-Bar, UC San Diego) The full report is available online. Mangroves have been shown to provide $855 billion in flood protection services ...

These islets grow into islands—mangrove cays—arranged in linear archipelagoes. The clusters of cays work as screens, benefiting the sea grass by moderating wave action and the coral reef by ...

Now 27, that childhood hobby has become his profession. A recent project involved mapping part of the Sundarbans, a vast area of mangrove forests where the waters of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and ...

Mangroves and seagrass are not only aesthetically pleasing to the landscapes above our waters, but they also play a vital role in the ecosystems under the water. Along the Indian River in Tequesta ...