mangroves

Climate change is causing sea level rise and increasing extreme coastal flooding across the U.S., challenging communities where many people live in coastal areas. In response, Florida is developing adaptive strategies by merging infrastructure with urban design to withstand worsening storms. Innovations include creating affordable, custom-designed 3D-printed living seawalls that protect shorelines while serving as artificial marine habitats.

Coastal women in East Africa are adapting to changing ocean conditions by building new livelihoods through conservation-based businesses like restaurant construction, mangrove restoration, and coral reef protection. These efforts aim to address climate change, overfishing, and declining ocean health while creating sustainable income sources.

Kenya's community conservationists are restoring carbon-rich mangroves, with Zulfa Hassan inspiring women to rehabilitate damaged ecosystems, which helps restore marine life and secure livelihoods.

Farmers and environmentalists are opposing a proposal for hydrocarbon wells off the Parangipettai coast, warning that it will threaten mangroves, destroy coastal natural resources, and harm fishermen's livelihoods.

Rising sea levels may drown mangroves, causing them to die and release stored carbon. This could transform coastal ecosystems from carbon sinks into carbon sources as their carbon-rich soils erode.