Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Mangroves are incredible survivors and adapters. They're also amazing at lessening the impact of tropical storms and climate change. And heck, they're cool looking. So jump into the brackish waters and have a listen to this classic episode all about these beauts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Guaranteed Human. Hi, everyone. I hope you're enjoying your Saturday morning and your weekend so far. And I hope this episode makes it a little bit better because it's about one of my favorite trees, the mangrove. I discovered mangroves in person when I went to Coastal Mexico for the first time. And I tell you what, I fell in love with these things. They are amazing. |
| 0:26.0 | Mangrove's colon, nature's best tree? I think so. |
| 0:34.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:42.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and there's Jerry over there. |
| 0:48.8 | So let's get to it while we're talking about mangroves, everybody. |
| 0:49.8 | Mangroes. |
| 0:53.4 | Gather around while we talk about mangroves. |
| 0:57.7 | My new favorite tree. It's a great tree. It's a good favorite tree to have. It is. And this is one of those. I think this is the second and probably |
| 1:02.6 | final that was inspired by my recent trip to Mexico because we were surrounded by mangroves, |
| 1:27.3 | literally surrounded by mangroves. and we couldn't get enough of them, man, like riding the bikes around and looking in these mangrove forests and considering what it must be like to try and navigate through them, nearly impossible, I would say. |
| 1:34.0 | Because, yeah, I mean, you've seen them in person, I'm sure, like just how dense these things are. |
| 1:41.1 | And, you know, we're going to be talking about different kinds, but really sort of the money mangroves are the ones that we're going to focus on. |
| 1:44.4 | And they are just, I was knocked out just by how they looked, |
| 1:48.3 | and I could tell that they were a remarkable wonder of nature and evolution. |
| 1:52.6 | And then after this stuff, Dave Ruse helped us put this together. |
| 1:59.4 | After learning everything that they're capable of, it's just like, what kind of tree is this? |
| 2:00.0 | It's amazing. |
| 2:03.3 | It's an amazing tree. Like I said, it's maybe one of the best trees to have as your favorite tree because there are very few trees that are this |
| 2:07.6 | amazing, Chuck. Man. And we're talking mangroves, and we should say mangroves aren't necessarily |
| 2:14.2 | like a species or even a family of tree. |
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