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A parade of mangroves and now, crabs, are heading north. Atlantic mangrove fiddler crabs have been found nearly 200 miles further from their historic northern limit in Jacksonville, Fla., according to ...

On the outskirts of the coastal Kenyan city of Mombasa, a women’s organization in Jomvu Creek aims to transform livelihoods and the environment through mud crab farming. A blue economy grant is ...

Under agreements for sustainable use and protection, Ecuador’s environment ministry has granted concessions for 98,000 hectares (about 242,000 acres) of mangrove forests to artisanal fishers in the ...

BEAUFORT — One of South Carolina’s newest climate migrants has claws. A new study in the Journal of Crustacean Biology has found that the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab has expanded it’s range north ...

The little octopus didn’t expect to be a spectacle this morning. It was minding its own business — relaxing in an abandoned crab hole, moisturised in a slick layer of dark mud — when out of the blue ...

Volunteers planted trees and grasses to help protect Louisiana's coast from erosion. The planting effort is part of a larger project to fortify 34 man-made islands between Fourchon and Grand Isle.

As the tide recedes from the Bay of Rest, mud flats lined with mangrove trees are left exposed. It’s a dichotomy of environments as the seafloor shifts from an underwater habitat to part of the land.

The crabs are part of a larger poleward migration of tropical species driven by warming ocean temperatures. While associated with mangroves, the crabs have expanded beyond the trees' new range into ...