A crab named for mangrove forests is leaving them behind. New research from William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS shows that the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab (Leptuca thayeri) is settling into ...

In the tangled darkness of Southeast Asian mangrove forests, one crab species appears to have evolved a structure that functions like a miniature car headlamp. Researchers at the National University ...

In the northern Vietnam province of Thanh Hoa, fishers venture out into the mangrove forests to set their traps. The fishers use fyke nets strung between mangrove trees to catch wild shrimp and fish ...

Mud crab fishing in Lorang village, Aru Islands, has been a vital livelihood since 2014, but a recent survey suggests signs of depletion, raising concerns among local fishers. The boom in crab ...

China has become one of the few countries to buck the global trend of coastal deforestation, achieving a 44 per cent increase in mangrove forest area since 2000, according to the latest data from the ...

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 ...

The ecological value of coastal mangrove forests in Mexico has been apparent to marine scientists for years. Now, for the first time, researchers have used a wide-ranging compilation of fisheries ...