On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...

Preserving and restoring salt marshes is essential not only for wildlife protection and natural flood mitigation, but also for the numerous ecosystem services—such as carbon storage, bird ...

From above, New Jersey’s coastal wetlands and marshes present a striking and perplexing sight: a network of mysterious squares and straight lines cutting ...

Of these ecosystems, those dominated by plants (e.g., tundra, deciduous and coniferous forest, rain forest, grasslands, seagrass beds, mangroves, and salt marshes) are typically green in ...

In the forest ecosystem, taller trees grow over decades ... the variability in net carbon sequestration between different salt marshes is due to changes in differences in relative marsh elevation ...

In May we’ll open it as a unique opportunity for nature lovers to experience a salt marsh ecosystem firsthand. Last month JMLT acquired Hoover Ranch, a 600-acre haven for native waterfowl and ...

A brainstorming workshop, conducted in both physical and virtual modes, brought together key stakeholders, experts, and policymakers to deliberate on ecosystem-based solutions for coastal resilience ...

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...

While scientists have long known that coastal salt marshes are just such a sink for “blue carbon,” or carbon stored in the ocean and coastal ecosystems, it has been difficult to get an ...

While scientists have long known that coastal salt marshes are just such a sink for "blue carbon," or carbon stored in the ocean and coastal ecosystems, it has been difficult to get an accurate ...