Coastal wetlands are globally important sinks of organic carbon (C). However, to what extent wetland C cycling will be affected by accelerated sea-level rise (SLR) and saltwater intrusion is unknown, ...

Blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and sea grasses absorb and store carbon, helping fight climate change. But unlike mangroves and sea grasses, salt marshes are lesser-known ...

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.

Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 89, No. 1/2 (SPRING · SUMMER 1973), pp. 78-91 (14 pages) Vegetation types and environmental factors were studied in an irregularly flooded salt ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San Francisco Bay Area photographer joSon had anticipated. Bundled in ski apparel and buckled into ...

Development rings the South Bay and its multicolored salt ponds. Green algae dominate the ponds with low- to mid-salinity levels; red indicates higher levels A small crowd watches the opening of one ...

DANVERS — For the last 20 years, students at Essex Tech have passed the torch onward for a research project studying the salt marsh on Eastern Point in Gloucester. The project is part of an ongoing, ...

This map from a study released by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in 1970 shows the location of five sampling sites in and near the Biloxi Marsh. A Louisiana Department of Wildlife ...