Earth Protect Blog

  By MarÍa Verza, Christina Larson and Victoria Milko The Associated Press PROGRESO, MEXICO » When a rotten egg smell rises from the mangrove swamps of southeast Mexico, something is going well. It means that this key coastal habitat for blunting hurricane impacts has recovered...

    By Ruth Maclean © The New York Times Co. YAATAAH, NIGERIA » When the women arrived in the quiet waterside village of Yaataah on an afternoon in May, some local young men hurried over to them. They offered to carry the women’s loads — old rice sacks and tin basins full of ...