The world lost 1,453 square kilometers (561 square miles) of salt marsh between 2000 and 2019, an area twice the size of Singapore, according to a new study based on satellite imagery. In addition to ...

Tidal salt marshes are fairly common across the Mid-Atlantic. These coastal ecosystems provide habitat for plants, birds and fish. Existing at the intersection of land and sea, tidal salt marshes act ...

YORK, Maine — The York Land Trust and a coalition of environmental partners are working to revitalize 132 acres of degraded salt marsh on the upper York River. "The York Land Trust is very excited for ...

Changes in salt-marsh areas around the world between 2000 and 2019 were quantified using satellite records, and the effects of these changes — collectively representing a slowing net global loss — on ...

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...

A new study has found that sea otters are helping to slow down salt marsh erosion in Elkhorn Slough in California by eating burrowing crabs. Drawing on a range of data sources, which included surveys ...

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

The saltmarsh sparrow’s existence depends on the coastal marshes found from Virginia to Maine. Their decline reveals an ecosystem on the brink. Bri Benvenuti, a technician with the U.S. Fish and ...

Annalee Tweitmann stood ankle deep in mud, hands wet with mud, peering at a steep riverbank of mud. Mud comes with the job, she said, and she's fine with that. Because mud is where the mussels are.