Live Roundups Editor's Desk Insights Executive Ops Weather About 🔍
Home › Environment › Drowned 5,000-year-old forests reborn as thriving peat...
Environment

Drowned 5,000-year-old forests reborn as thriving peat reefs and biodiversity hotspots off Mozambique

Drowned 5,000-year-old forests reborn as thriving peat reefs and biodiversity hotspots off Mozambique
Phys.org Thursday 15 October 2026, 14:00 UTC 1 min read
Key Points

Researchers from the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies (BCSS) Ocean Observatory have documented ancient forests that grew on the Mozambican coast thousands of years ago and have been found beneath the sea, where they now serve as hotspots teeming with marine life similar in biodiversity to coral reefs.

Researchers from the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies (BCSS) Ocean Observatory have documented ancient forests that grew on the Mozambican coast thousands of years ago and have been found beneath the sea, where they now serve as hotspots teeming with marine life similar in biodiversity to coral reefs.
Mozambique (ORG) the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies (BCSS) (LOCATION) Ocean Observatory (ORG) Mozambican (ORG)
Originally published by Phys.org Read original →

Related Stories

Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas

Coral-fringed tropical atolls are among the landforms most threatened by global warming, but many have a potential superpower: Healthy ecosystems may help them keep pace with rising seas. Atoll islands with native vegetation and thriving seabird populations are “naturally active systems that can change and adapt to their environmental conditions if they are allowed to do so,” said Nick Graham, a marine ecologist at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, who led an international team of...

Ars Technica Science 1h ago

Scorecard: Colombia gets top marks while high-emitting countries doing too little to protect health from climate change

The latest Healthy NDC Scorecard, published by the Global Climate and Health Alliance, finds that, Colombia integrates health most deeply into its national climate plan, closely followed by Nigeria and Cambodia. Conversely, the climate commitments of the governments of Japan, New Zealand and India fail to adequately consider health, while high-emitting economies, including EU members, China, Brazil and the U.K., refer to health in their national climate plans but do not match this with the...

Phys.org 1h ago

Indonesia's skies turn apocalyptic orange as smoke blankets Singapore

Thick smoke from wildfires in Indonesia turned the skies over Palangkaraya a striking yellow and orange on Thursday 15 October, reducing visibility to just a few dozen metres. Aerial footage shows the capital of Central Kalimantan province almost disappearing beneath the haze, with the Talawang roundabout and a nearby statue barely visible. Hundreds of kilometres away, Singapore was also blanketed in smoke, leaving its iconic Marina Bay Sands complex almost indistinguishable against the skyline.

Euronews 1h ago

Resources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offset

Madeleine King told press club emissions from NT fossil fuel basin ‘are accounted for and offset’ but research found 95% of emissions this decade would not have to be offsetSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereThe resources minister, Madeleine King, is facing calls to correct her claim in a major speech that all greenhouse gas emissions from developing a massive fossil fuel basin in the Northern Territory will be offset to limit their impact...

The Guardian World 2h ago