INDIA – Tamil Nadu has emerged as one of India’s most ambitious states for mangrove restoration, amid large-scale plantation drives, growing public investment, and coastal resilience funding.

China – Mangrove soils store “blue carbon” by processing excess nitrogen. Some carbon is preserved when organic matter binds to iron minerals, forming a protective shield against microbial decomposition. However, wastewater from nearby aquaculture ponds may disrupt both functions.

SE ASIA – A new EU-backed project will explore the connectivity and management of three coastal ecosystems: coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows, to assess interconnected coastal ecosystems vital for biodiversity, climate resilience and human wellbeing.

INDIA – A new systematic review has now pulled together the scattered evidence explaining how mangroves chemically survive one of the harshest environments on Earth, and the answer may hold the key to breeding salt-tolerant crops for a world of rising seas and degrading soils.

GLOBAL – The biodiversity credit market should stop trying to copy the carbon market’s method of reducing everything to one tradable unit, a new op-ed argues.

GLOBAL – Understanding why mangroves are present at a location can provide causal links for mangrove management, restoration science and climate change adaptation.

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