THE tide was ebbing furiously, impatient to leave the malodorous, viscid mud banks of the tortuous creeks and return to the cool, clean ocean. Areas of thatch appeared gradually above the receding ...

A critical shoreline feature responsible for habitat and coastal community protection is eroding at an alarming rate. A group ...

CHARLESTOWN — On a late spring day at the height of the spawning season for horseshoe crabs in Rhode Island, signs of the ancient creatures are all around the salt marsh that rings Quonochontaug Pond, ...

Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.

The volunteers walked gingerly in single file, feeling with their feet for the wooden planks buried in pluff mud. The planks made it easier to walk through the salt marsh, but they were beginning to ...

Some salt marsh sparrows out on New Hampshire’s seacoast are now flying around with brand new backpacks. The accessory is actually a solar-powered tag the size of a fingernail, which will help ...

Salt marshes lace much of the South Coast shoreline, but not in New Bedford. Development of the harbor displaced nearly all traces of them more than a century ago. Now, with climate resilience in mind ...

In Maine’s vast and varied landscape, marshes might not appear to be anything special at first glance. But in the effort to mitigate the impacts of climate change, “marshes are like the holy grail,” ...

UD researchers combine field data and machine learning algorithm to find salt patches on farmland tripled since 2011 in Delmarva Salty soils are causing reduced crop density, lower yields and barren ...