Salt marshes are among coastal habitats endangered by both rising sea levels and urban development.

What's happening? Ecologists in the area were dismayed recently when they noticed deep tire ruts blasting through the salt marshes at Agnes Water, a popular vacation spot 500 kilometers (310.7 ...

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 ...

Salt marshes absorb carbon, filter pollution and help buffer natural disasters, but they are threatened by sea level rise and more.

Novel method will help restore Delaware and New Jersey salt marshes Climate change threatens to “drown” Delaware’s salt marshes. New funds from the National Wildlife Foundation will use a novel method ...

Visible salt patches appear on the soil, and, in some cases, areas once used for growing crops may fully convert into marshes. At the University of Delaware, Pinki Mondal, associate professor and ...

Maine’s salt marshes are at risk of disappearing, from rising sea levels and much more A University of Maine analysis suggests a significant portion of them could be gone by the end of the ...

On a sunny, warm day, they look a lot like fields of hay swept by the wind. In fact, salt marshes are an incredible example of the crossover between land and sea.

Seagrasses and salt marshes can store more carbon than trees. Adding it up is easier said than done. Could restoring New England’s coastal ecosystems help the region meet its climate goals?

Yet around 50 per cent of the world’s salt marshes have already disappeared. By 2100, without significant intervention, almost all will have vanished beneath the water.

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 ...