Maine salt marshes are a key tool in the fight against climate change, acting as a buffer against storms and soaking up planet-warming emissions. These reservoirs of "blue carbon" can be 10 times more ...
How does loss of habitat affect the animals still living there? A genetic study of saltwater-adapted Savannah sparrows around the San Francisco Bay Area shows that the 90% loss of tidal marsh habitat ...
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 ...
A Mi'kmaw land trust has purchased a southeastern New Brunswick salt marsh near Dorchester for protection and conservation by ...
The sparrows are endemic to the marshes on the East Coast — they exist nowhere else in the world. But those habitats and the birds that depend on them are quickly disappearing, in part due to the ...
As Horry and Georgetown counties see more erosion and the loss of salt marsh habitat, a South Carolina program is providing free nature-based solutions.
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Saltwater overtaking coastal forests kills trees, like these loblolly pines in the Chesapeake Bay ...
Canonchet Farm, named for a sachem of the Narragansett Tribe, still has vestiges of the estate of former Rhode Island Gov. William Sprague. The 1.3-mile path is perfect for parents and grandparents to ...
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the ...