Mapmakers often call the islands of the Pacific "Oceania." A drive along the southern coast of Fiji's biggest island, Viti Levu, proves why it's the right name. Tin-roofed, cinder-block homes sit ...

Fijian President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has called for protection of the country’s mangrove forests similar to how coral reefs are protected. Fijian President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has called for ...

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The glossy leaves and branching roots of mangroves are downright eye-catching, and now a study finds that the moon plays a special role in the vigor of these trees. Mangroves are coastal trees that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – It was once Latin America's largest landfill. Now, a decade after Rio de Janeiro shut it down and redoubled efforts to recover the surrounding expanse of highly polluted swamp, crabs, ...

A Treasure Coast resort has paid one of the steepest mangrove-cutting fines in state history for illegally cutting about 944 mangrove trees to nubs along the St. Lucie River shoreline. The state also ...

The mystery emerged in 2015, when nearly 10 percent of the seemingly healthy mangrove forest along northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria suddenly died. Scientists initially blamed this crucial ...