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.

This piece was shared as part of the series Sinking in Saltwater, co-published by The Maine Monitor and Portland Press Herald, with support from the Pulitzer Center's nationwide Connected Coastlines ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Direct and indirect plant–plant interactions play important roles in structuring plant communities, but the relative importance of physical ...

Understanding the processes determining community structure is one of the major goals of ecological research. Both deterministic and stochastic processes may shape community structure. The challenge ...

CLEMSON — Clemson University wetland ecologists at the Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science will spend the next year monitoring water salinity levels and vegetation changes ...

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 ...

As rising seas salinise the soils of the Venice lagoon, scientists and chefs are turning to long-forgotten wild herbs ...