CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Volunteers have proved essential every step of the way along the years-long journey to restore the Ashleyville area marsh, most recently helping harvest spartina grass that ...

WADMALAW ISLAND — All school year, the students at Edith L. Frierson Elementary School watched the marsh grass in the school’s greenhouse grow from seeds while learning about salt marshes, including ...

Americans who live along coastlines are watching their land disappear and property threatened as climate change causes sea levels to rise. While homeowners often rely on expensive seawalls and ...

CAMERON PARISH, LA (KPLC) - As the oil spill catastrophe looms in the Gulf of Mexico, the fight to save the wetlands continues in Cameron Parish as it has for decades. And the sight of teens doing ...

Marsh plants can play a major role in mitigating coastal damage as sea levels rise and storm surges increase. A new study provides greater detail about how these protective benefits work under ...

Watching the comings and goings of tiny horses that looked right at home grazing on marsh grass or galloping on the beach was “magical,” according to residents of Horse and Little Horse islands who ...

It wasn’t an assignment for those afraid to get their feet wet. On Wednesday morning, volunteers wearing bright green t-shirts waded into the waters on Galveston Island to plant marsh grass. As the ...

TUCKERTON - The rain has subsided and the floodwater has receded from the properties along the man-made lagoons in the borough, but as they do, they have revealed a different foe - marsh grass. At its ...

Marsh grass shrimp (Palaemonetes vulgaris) are impressively fast and nimble swimmers, as anyone who has seen them zipping about tide pools at the beach can attest. Nils Tack, a postdoctoral researcher ...

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 ...

Weighing the benefits versus the destruction that follows seagrass wrack into the marsh. In the summer, seagrasses slough off old shoots and grow new ones. The sloughed off grass is pushed into salt ...