{"id":4349,"date":"2023-06-13T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2023-06-13T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:02:36","slug":"united-arab-emirates-looks-to-mangrove-swamps-to-fight-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/06\/13\/united-arab-emirates-looks-to-mangrove-swamps-to-fight-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The UAE is eyeing salty, muddy mangroves to fight climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><span>Against the heat, urbanization and sand of the United Arab Emirates, the calm, muddy waterways of the Gulf state&#039;s coastal mangroves are being restored and replanted in an ambitious fight against climate change. <\/span><span>Tropical mangrove forests are complex ecosystems anchored around mangrove trees that thrive in inhospitable hot, muddy and salty conditions. They protect coastal communities from storms and floods, host diverse and endangered species, and can mitigate climate change by sequestering atmospheric carbon. withstand extremely high salinity and super high temperatures,&quot; said Hamad al-Jailani, a scientist at Environment.\u00a0<\/span><em>(Abir Ahmar and Amr Alfiky, REUTERS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&quot;by clicking on the title of the article, you will be redirected to the entire article&quot;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of heat, urbanization and sand in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state\u2019s calm, muddy waterways of coastal mangroves are being restored and replanted in an ambitious fight against climate change. Tropical mangrove forests are complex ecosystems anchored around mangrove trees that thrive in inhospitable hot, muddy and salty conditions. They protect coastal communities from storms and flooding, are [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}