Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

This protected Mid-Atlantic salt marsh remnant, the last one in Boston, has recorded an astonishing 271 species of birds.

Salt has played a crucial role in the history of Greece. The salt used in antiquity likely came from the salt flats in ...

Much of Boston used to be marshland like this, including the Back Bay, South Bay, Mill Pond and more. Those areas were filled ...

This water removal, coupled with unique dielectric behaviors under extreme confinement, amplified the Coulomb forces between ions, favoring the formation of solid salt structures. This fundamental ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers find that restoring salt marshes enhances coastal protection while lowering seawall construction costs, making it an economically viable solution.