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Selects: Mangroves: Nature's Best Tree?

14 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What makes mangroves nature's best tree?

0.031 - 18.077 Bailey Taylor

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Chapter 2: How do mangroves adapt to salty environments?

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688.43 - 708.974 Chuck Bryant

That's right. Those are the ones with the little nubby, they look like sticks almost, sticking out of the water. They filter it out and they secrete it on the leaves. So that means if you see a black mangrove and you see some, you know, kind of chalky white stuff on the leaf, that is salt. Like go, I don't know if I should say go lick it because I don't know if that's dangerous at all.

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710.095 - 712.057 Chuck Bryant

But it's salty. Just trust me.

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712.077 - 715.021 Josh Clark

It tastes like salt and DDT.

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Gosh.

715.733 - 739.843 Josh Clark

Red mangroves, they're non-secretors. So they actually just don't allow salt to be taken up by their roots. Now that's easier said than done because their roots are planted in the water, right? So there's water, they're taking up water from the ocean, from salt water. And what they do is they have cell walls that actually act through reverse osmosis.

740.464 - 760.449 Josh Clark

It lets water through, but it doesn't let solids through. which is quite a trick. I mean, that's something that humans have only recently figured out how to do. Mangroves have been doing it for who knows how many hundreds of thousands or millions of years. But they do it in part because they have this hydrophobic lipophilic material called suberin that really serves them well.

761.09 - 773.365 Chuck Bryant

That's right. It allows them to get rid of more than 90% of the salts in the water, which also means, which I didn't really think about until just now, that they can literally tolerate, I guess, about 10% salt content.

773.53 - 777.535 Josh Clark

Yeah, I saw 90% to 95%, but yeah, that's still a lot of salt for a plant.

Chapter 3: What are the different species of mangroves?

1973.96 - 1974.24 Josh Clark

Yeah.

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1974.22 - 1976.344 Chuck Bryant

It is. That's devastating.

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1977.146 - 1978.91 Josh Clark

Like it's biblical, you know?

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1979.191 - 2007.737 Chuck Bryant

Yeah. They did some studies too with the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004. And they found that the mangroves there were about 100 meters deep and they – at least helped reduce those waves between 5% and 30%. So that's a big deal. Six feet of storm surge up to 30% of wave height in the initial rush in from the ocean is you're saving a lot of lives in that case.

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2007.852 - 2021.992 Josh Clark

Yeah. And, I mean, you saw how bad the Indian Ocean tsunami was, too. It just makes you wonder, like, how much worse it could have been without mangroves. So I say we take our second break, and we come back and talk about carbon sequestration.

2022.733 - 2024.916 Chuck Bryant

That's right, a.k.a. superpower number two.

2024.956 - 2037.454 Josh Clark

Hey, girl.

2039.763 - 2058.16 Bailey Taylor

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Chapter 4: How do mangroves protect coastlines from storms?

2970.927 - 2977.255 Josh Clark

Yeah. Anytime it requires any additional thought or effort, the management fee just automatically goes up.

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2977.596 - 2979.238 Chuck Bryant

I had to click on three extra things.

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2980.059 - 2985.701 Josh Clark

Right. I had to find out what these blue bonds were. That's my impression of a mutual fund manager.

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2985.721 - 2989.506 Chuck Bryant

Yeah. Financial advisor. If that's your financial advisor, you're going to the wrong person.

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2990.006 - 2994.652 Josh Clark

I meet him at Burger King every couple of weeks. In the back.

2995.293 - 2996.214 Chuck Bryant

Yeah. Where else did you meet?

2996.935 - 3006.447 Josh Clark

You got anything else? Nothing else. Up with mangroves. Up with mangroves. And since we both said up with mangroves, everybody, that means it's time for listener mail.

3009.571 - 3029.093 Chuck Bryant

This is a thank you from a Satanist. We had a great podcast. We must have put this on a select recently, I guess. Yeah, like two weeks ago. Okay. Hey, guys. Discovered your podcast in 2011. Have been hooked ever since. Your informative, banter-filled episodes remained a welcome constant in my life throughout college, adult years, and now parenthood.

3029.614 - 3046.834 Chuck Bryant

It's helping me stay sane during sleepless nights with my newborns. When I saw the episode on Satanism, I guess I hadn't listened to it previously, I was simultaneously excited and nervous. I would hope you'd give it the usual Josh and Chuck treatment, and I was not disappointed. Over the years, I've been given a lot of grief being a Satanist.

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