Neat News 263 (added 2016-09-19)

Mangroves Protect Costs

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Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants that can recover and protect the cost and people living there (e.g., they attenuated the impact of the 2004 tsunami). Letting mangroves to recover is claimed to be a very effective conservation approach and may be superior to actually planting them.

News seen at: BBC - Science