A community fishery in Cambodia was struggling. There weren't enough fish to make ends meet, until local fishermen started ...

But the landscape is common as 54,000 square miles of mangroves grow in areas of the world in proximity to the equator. There is a more convenient mangrove forest. In Key West, to be surrounded by one ...

Note to audience: Andrew West is a multi-media photographer at the News-Press and Naples Daily News. He has been covering Southwest Florida since 1997. One of his favorite things to cover is the ...

A SW Florida photographer documented a single mangrove tree at Bunche Beach for nearly a decade, watching it thrive then die ...

Beyond their inherent value as living organisms, mangrove trees are vital when it comes to protecting healthy waters and fisheries and even human development. A 2019 study from The Nature Conservancy ...

Florida is a special place. We may not have sweeping views of towering mounts or backcountry roads sprinkled with fall foliage, but we are blessed with an enormous amount of natural beauty. From ...

Even seemingly small discoveries can illustrate the outsized impact of a warming planet. That was the case recently when three curious nature explorers confirmed that a prominent tropical plant ...

In the Sundarbans, an ecological treasure straddling India and Bangladesh that is now on the front lines of climate change, local women are leading an effort to mitigate the dangers of rising waters.