The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of marsh birds' abundance around Great Lakes coastlines shows virtually all of the bird species thriving over the past decade-plus — likely because of high ...

For thousands of years, before climate change started accelerating, New Jersey’s coastal marshes slowly regenerated through a harmonious process that deposited sediment from adjoining waters and kept ...

WESTPORT, Mass. — Danielle Perry is working to save one of the best natural defenses to climate change— the salt marsh. Perry is a coastal resilience specialist for the Mass Audubon Society who has ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Coastal ...

Rising seas are drowning New Jersey wetlands. A new round of state climate funding aims to make them more resilient.

As rising sea levels cause marshes to move inland in six mid-Atlantic states, coastal habitats will not serve as a carbon sink but instead will release more carbon into the atmosphere, a new modeling ...

While most hunters look for deer in bottomlands, upland forests or fields, coastal marshes can hold good whitetail populations where big bucks die of old age without ever seeing hunters. "Most ...

Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an early warning and opportunity to protect an ecosystem that serves as the ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New Jersey coasts, beaches ravaged by Superstorm Sandy underwent extensive ...

The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) reported at its May 2025 board meeting that it currently has 106 active projects underway across the coast, with a focus on hurricane ...