Comparison of living and dead mangroves at two sites along the Gulf of Carpentaria in 2016. Photo: Norman Duke

Unexpected consequences from catastrophic mangrove dieback – “What was concerning was that the dead mangrove forest emitted about eight times more methane than the living forest”

4 July 2019 (Southern Cross University) – When swathes of mangrove forests died along a 1000 kilometre stretch of coastline in northern Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria, there was widespread shock. But the impacts of the catastrophic climate-induced mangrove dieback didn’t end there. In a world first, researchers from Southern Cross University have found that the […]

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