Salt marshes are an integral part of New England’s coastal ecosystem, but the erosion of some marshes is affecting their ability to protect habitats and humans. Get NHPR's reporting about politics, ...

Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud. “This is a place where you could get ...

Salt marshes, those critical habitats that protect coastal towns from flooding, store massive amounts of blue carbon, support fisheries and play a key role in ecological resilience, are struggling to ...

Climate change threatens to “drown” Delaware’s salt marshes. New funds from the National Wildlife Foundation will use a novel method to restore them. Environmentalists from Ducks Unlimited and other ...

CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A non-profit on the coast is now one step closer to creating a first-of-its-kind sustainable salt marsh nursery. The North Carolina Coastal Federation’s Stacia Strong ...

A critical shoreline feature responsible for habitat and coastal community protection is eroding at an alarming rate. A group of organizations along with the state have embarked on a mission to ...

The salt marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys raviventris) is an endangered species, endemic to the marshes of the San Francisco Bay, California, USA. This species is thought to feed primarily on ...

CHARLESTOWN — On a late spring day at the height of the spawning season for horseshoe crabs in Rhode Island, signs of the ancient creatures are all around the salt marsh that rings Quonochontaug Pond, ...

The world lost 1,453 square kilometers (561 square miles) of salt marsh between 2000 and 2019, an area twice the size of Singapore, according to a new study based on satellite imagery. In addition to ...

Nearly six years after restoration construction was completed at the former Cargill salt ponds in Napa, the previously industrialized marshes are alive with wildlife activity. The wind whipping across ...

Along the edges of the United States, scientists are picking up signals that the ocean is changing faster than coastal ...

A $50,000 grant will help reconnect Riverside Park's pond to the Acushnet River, creating a salt marsh. The project is part of a larger effort to restore the New Bedford Harbor, a Superfund site that ...