Mangroves – Nature’s Sleepy Coastal Guardians

I Can’t Sleep

Benjamin Boster & Glassbox Media

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Mangroves: the sleepy sentinels of the shore, standing knee-deep in water and not in a hurry to go anywhere. These salt-tolerant trees protect coastlines, shelter marine life, and absorb carbon like nature’s very own weighted blanket. Perfect for a bedtime story—because what’s more relaxing than trees that thrive in the tides? Want More? Request an episode: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Listen ad-free & support: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop sleep-friendly products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Mangroves, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - Mangroves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.8	Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I read random articles from across the web to bore you to sleep with my soothing voice.
0:48.4	I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled, Mangrove.
0:58.2	A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
1:06.4	Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along the coastlines and tidal rivers.
1:13.6	They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen and remove salt, allowing them to tolerate conditions that kill most plants.
1:24.6	The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species.
1:30.3	Mangroves are taxonomically diverse due to convergent evolution in several plant families.
1:38.3	They occur worldwide in the tropics and subtropics, and even some temperate coastal areas,
1:46.8	mainly between latitudes 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south,
1:51.4	with the greatest mangrove area within 5 degrees of the equator.
1:58.5	Mangrove plant families first appeared during the late Cretaceous to Paleocene epics
2:04.6	and became widely distributed in part due to the movement of tectonic plates.
2:10.6	The oldest known fossils of mangrove palm date to 75 million years ago.
2:18.3	Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees, shrubs, and ferns, also called halifides, and are adapted to live in harsh coastal conditions.
2:30.3	They contain a complex salt filtration system and a complex root system to cope with salt water
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