Sea otters are making an impact as they return to the wetlands of Central California. Remarkable changes have occurred in the landscape as these adorable animals recolonize their former habitat in the ...

A new kiosk in Hampton Falls invites visitors to explore the wildlife, history, and importance of the Hampton-Seabrook ...

Salt marshes sequester significant carbon in their sediment — more per hectare than tropical rainforests. They protect the land from storm surges and sea level rise, and they shelter a variety of ...

The return of sea otters, a top predator, to a California estuary is helping slow erosion and restore the estuary’s degraded geology. A sea otter in the estuarine water of Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 40, No. 4 (JULY 2017), pp. 1013-1027 (15 pages) The importance of intertidal estuarine habitats, like salt marsh and oyster reef, has been well established, as has their ...

The Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program has dished out $250,000 in grants to local groups for environmental protection ...

Maritime Aquarium Conservation Project Manager Justin Susarchick, left, and Conservation Research Assistant Rebha Raviraj are with a team of researchers building greenhouses to find out which strains ...

To increase our knowledge of the early life history of Megalops atlanticus (Tarpon) along the United States Atlantic coast north of Florida, we estimated the age and hatch dates of Tarpon larvae (i.e.

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A salt marsh harvest mouse walks across the bulrush at Grizzly Island Wildlife Area in San Francisco. (Cody Aylward/UC Davis) From species of marmots to moles, shrews and mice, many of the world’s ...

Although sea otters only recently recolonized their historic habitat in the Elkhorn Sough, they’re already benefiting the ecosystem. (Htrnr via iStock) Sea otters are making an impact as they return ...

As sea otters recolonize a California estuary, they are restoring its degraded geology by keeping populations of overgrazing marsh crabs in check, a new study shows. The crabs' appetite for plant ...