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Mangroves move up Florida’s coast

Satellite images reveal tropical trees’ northward expansion

MOVING MANGROVES  Rising winter temperatures have allowed mangrove forests like these in Key West to expand north along Florida’s Atlantic coast.

Paul Nelson/U.S. Geological Survey

By Gabriel Popkin

- More than 2 years ago

Florida’s mangrove forests are on the move. Satellite images from the past three decades reveal that these diverse coastal ecosystems have crept up the state’s Atlantic coast thanks to rising winter temperatures.