CONSERVATION NEWS

News, views and features from the front lines of conservation

News spotlight: Cities turn to nature to revive their rivers

By Mary Kate McCoy

December 12, 2022

In case you missed it: Around the world, rivers have been treated like repositories of trash and toxic runoff — some so heavily polluted that they caught on fire. Now, cities from Australia to Europe to North America are turning to nature to restore their waterways.

Tags: blue carbon ecosystem forest Global Mangrove Alliance Indonesia mangroves World Mangrove Day

On World Mangrove Day, a new strategy to protect the world’s most important ecosystem

By Jorge Ramos, Ph.D.

July 26, 2017

Mangroves are critically important for coastal communities around the world. Here’s what one group is doing to protect them.