workers—often employed through New Deal programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA)—dug parallel ditches and canals through the marshes. These straight lines and grid-like patterns were ...

Barrow’s coast includes around 130 hectares of mudflats, saltmarsh, beaches, and freshwater marshes within South Walney Nature Reserves, as well as the North Walney National Nature Reserve ...

PIRG partnered with the Charleston Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation and the Charleston Waterkeeper to hold a plastic pellet and tidal marsh clean-up on Saturday and again found thousands of plastic ...

As glaciers continue to melt, salt marshes grow vertically in order to keep up with rising sea levels, thus storing even more carbon.

The ocean stores nearly a third of industrial carbon dioxide emissions, and there is a growing global appreciation for the role that coastal ecosystems like salt marshes play as carbon sinks. "The ...

“The amazing thing about tidal marshes, from a climate perspective,” says Wenxiu Teng, lead author of the paper and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth, Geographic and Climate ...

Coastal wetlands, such as seagrass meadows, tidal marshes, and mangrove forests, have the ability to sequester organic carbon in their sediments over millennial time scales at rates 30–50-fold greater ...