Salt marshes are among coastal habitats endangered by both rising sea levels and urban development. Preserving and restoring salt marshes is essential not only for wildlife protection and natural ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire are using solar-powered tags to track salt marsh sparrows and collect data ...

Salt marshes absorb carbon, ... The Montney Formation is a 130,000-square-kilometer natural gas resource in Canada that causes air, water, and noise pollution. How Climate Change, ...

Their work shows that salt marshes store approximately 10 million cars' worth of carbon in their top meter of soil and suggests that saltmarshes add approximately 15,000 additional cars' worth ...

A salt marsh grows taller by accumulating silt and mud that flows off the landscape and settles beyond the reach of currents, so a smaller watershed means less sediment, ...

But salt marshes, which are coastal wetlands flooded and drained by salt water from the tides, can shield buildings and homes. “When Hurricane Sandy hit, if we didn’t have salt marshes there, a lot of ...

So far, her data suggest that at least over the next 20 years, salt marshes should remain carbon sinks. But as climate change progresses, they won’t be able to offset as much carbon as they do now.

These tides flood the salt marshes, bringing new life to one of my favorite features of a salt marsh, the salt pannes. This is also one of the best times to visit a marsh by kayak or canoe.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has a silent, largely unheralded protector: salt marshes. These muddy patches just inland from coastal mangrove forests play crucial roles in keeping the reef as ...

Salt marshes are 10 times more effective at storing carbon than tropical forests, and, left undisturbed, can trap the gas in the ground for centuries, ...

New England’s salt marshes store 10 million cars’ worth of carbon—and add another 15,000-worth every year Scientists at UMass Amherst are first to accurately use satellites to quantify ...