Rocking spidery legs and surrounded by stinky mud and hordes of insects ready to take a bite, the red mangrove was a hard ...

During this week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I encountered something rare and exciting: hundreds of red mangrove seeds scattered across the shoreline. These long, torpedo-shaped seeds ...

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If you venture deep into the heart of the Yucatan Peninsula, you just might find a relic of Earth’s ancient past along a swampy riverbed. And it’s unlike anything else. Mangroves exist on coastlines — ...

Jace Tunnell is used to discovering strange items scattered across the Texas shoreline. As the director of community ...

The San Pedro River winds from rainforests in Guatemala through the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. There, this peaceful river widens into a series of slow-flowing lakes. Along a remote 50-mile ...

The familiar floppy flowers of the magnolia tree are thought to be as old as the dinosaurs, which likely grazed among them. The domestic apple tree, that staple of American culture and lore, actually ...

Here's what to know if you want to alter or trim a mangrove tree without breaking the law.

Andrew West is a photojournalist at The News-Press & Naples Daily News. He has been covering Southwest Florida since 1997. Among his favorite topics to cover are the environment and the outdoors. He ...

A new study concludes that the presence of inland mangroves along a river in southern Mexico was the result of climate change-driven sea level rise during the Pleistocene Epoch, some 115,000 to ...

The domestic apple tree, a staple of American culture and lore, traces its roots to the forests of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, where DNA has shown that it descended from local fruit trees. TNS The ...