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 ...

Channelkeeper invites community members to explore the Carpinteria Salt Marsh with Bob Warner, board member and UCSB research professor; and Andrew Brooks, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve director, at ...

Protecting and enhancing salt marshes in front of protective seawalls can significantly help protect some coastlines, at a cost that makes this approach reasonable to implement. Images of coastal ...

The early warning could help the ecosystems that are key to preventing flooding, UT marine science researchers say. The sun rises over a salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Georgia, in February 2023. Marshes ...

Like many coastal communities, New Hampshire’s Seacoast has a flooding problem. Coastal areas are vulnerable to storms and sea level rise that threaten infrastructure, property, and natural habitats.

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 ...

Salt marshes exist on every coast of the U.S., but these important wetlands are succumbing quickly to the effects of sea ...

Coastal Georgia regulators want to change a rule designed to protect the state’s marshes, which serve as a buffer against storms and rising sea levels and a vital part of the coastal ecosystem. But ...

Phred Benham, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on genetic variation within saltwater-adapted Savannah sparrows, holds one of his subjects. The subspecies has lost 90% of ...