An $8 million NOAA grant will help UGA study how dredged sediment could raise salt marshes and bring back 326 acres.

Along temperate coasts, the effects of climate change—including sea-level rise, erosion, and more frequent and stronger ...

Salt marshes provide multiple ecosystem services, and one of those is protection of the coast against flooding. This is especially important in low-lying countries like the Netherlands. Scientists ...

A dogged paleoecologist named Dorothy Peteet is digging through the salt marshes of New York in the hope of preserving the city’s best natural defense against climate change. On the edge of Queens, ...

Cape Cod's salt marshes are as iconic as they are important. These beautiful, low-lying wetlands are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an outsized role in ...

Salt marshes are among coastal habitats endangered by both rising sea levels and urban development. Preserving and restoring salt marshes is essential not only for wildlife protection and natural ...

On one side, there’s the rising ocean. On the other, rising buildings. Squeezed between the two are California’s salt marshes — a unique ecosystem filled with pickleweed and cordgrass, shorebirds and ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On January 26, 1700, ...

Salt marshes are found along the entire U.S. coastline and on every continent except for Antarctica. They absorb carbon, protect coastlines from erosion, filter pollutants, and provide habitats for ...

A fisherman on Iraq's receding marshes that straddle the border with Iran — Asaad NIAZI Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and ...