Mangrove restoration is becoming big business, but benefits don’t always reach local people

September 30, 2026 · 12:00 am 2 sources

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• Global mangrove distribution on the open coast is controlled by waves
  Nature · September 30, 2026 00:00
  Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11089-z A process-driven mangrove presence or absence model using 20 years of open-source wave data shows that wave conditions are critical in determining where mangroves grow worldwide.

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• Mangrove restoration is becoming big business, but benefits don't always reach local people
  Phys.org · October 2, 2026 17:00
  On Pakistan's Indus delta coast, a 350,000-hectare (865,000-acre) mangrove project is turning a growing forest into something that can be sold to companies thousands of miles away: carbon credits.