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India's sacred forest groves

In India, sacred groves are helping resurrect a near-extinct forest ecosystem

Botanists and community stewards from Auroville, Tamil Nadu, are using scattered patches of native forest as a blueprint to revive the tropical dry evergreen forest ecosystems of coastal India.
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coastal lichens & sea level rise

Worried about sea level rise? Look for the lichens.

One of the great infrastructure challenges of the next few decades is to figure out which coastal sites should be abandoned and which can be saved. Lichens can help.
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Mangroves lack the genetic diversity to adapt to climate change
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Mangroves lack the genetic diversity to adapt to climate change

New research shows that these salt-water-loving plants are likely ill-equipped to cope with the sea level rise.
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