Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud. “This is a place where you could get ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On January 26, 1700, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. All the snow and ice on the ground make it hard to imagine, but green shoots ...

Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.

Climate change threatens to “drown” Delaware’s salt marshes. New funds from the National Wildlife Foundation will use a novel method to restore them. Environmentalists from Ducks Unlimited and other ...

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MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - The long stretch of salt marshes you see driving over Lowcountry bridges serve many purposes for the ecosystem, but their treatment is often overlooked. The South ...

This piece was shared as part of the series Sinking in Saltwater, co-published by The Maine Monitor and Portland Press Herald, with support from the Pulitzer Center's nationwide Connected Coastlines ...

People look at a marsh and think they understand it, but the real story is underground," said University of Georgia Professor Merryl Alber.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It takes hundreds of years for a salt marsh to form, for fine sediment ...