Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a ...

WOODS HOLE, MASS. -- Cape Cod’s salt marshes are as iconic as they are important. These beautiful, low-lying wetlands are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an ...

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the ...

The water in California’s San Francisco Bay could rise more than two meters by the year 2100. For the region’s tidal marshes and their inhabitants, such as Ridgway’s rail and the endangered salt-marsh ...

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 ...

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City environmental officials finished restoring three acres of wetlands in Fort Sparrow Marsh to improve the health of Jamaica Bay, a joint group of city agencies announced Thursday. The $7 million ...

Due to their seasonal variations, most salt marshes in Sri Lanka are mistaken for bare lands, thereby increasing their vulnerability to anthropogenic threats Research studies indicate that mangroves ...

Tidal marshes are a key component of coastal seascape mosaics that support a suite of socially and economically valuable ecosystem services, including recreational opportunities (e.g., fishing, ...

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Salt marshes are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an outsized role in nitrogen cycling, act as carbon sinks, protect coastal development from storm surge, and ...