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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study reports on the quantification of horizontal erosion by undermining of slopes in the atlantic mesotidal salt marshes of Odiel, SW ...

STANWOOD — From atop the dike at Port Susan, emerald farmland stretches to the left. To the right, a mosaic of greens and browns make up a coastal wetland. At points along the dike, the marsh looks ...

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

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.

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 team hypothesizes that the high coastal bluffs bordering the coast near the North River Estuary provide an abundant supply of sediment as they slowly erode into the ocean, so that even under ...

New research into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that keeps them viable. This research has wide-ranging ...

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 ...