Raleigh News & Observer: NC’s salt marshes hold 64 million tons of carbon dioxide. What happens if they die?
A drone photograph shows residential docks spanning a salt marsh in Wrightsville Beach. Salt marshes in North Carolina are being pushed back by rising sea waters, but aren’t always able to retreat due ...
NC’s salt marshes hold 64 million tons of carbon dioxide. What happens if they die?
EurekAlert!: New England’s salt marshes store 10 million cars’ worth of carbon—and add another 15,000-worth every year
New England’s salt marshes store 10 million cars’ worth of carbon—and add another 15,000-worth every year
Yahoo: Broad River salt marshes are failing. Could electricity and oysters spark comeback?
Broad River salt marshes are failing. Could electricity and oysters spark comeback?
A shrimp trawler navigates a salt marsh in South Carolina, where commercial and recreational fishing generate more than $78 million and $213 million, respectively, each year. A new mapping tool will ...
Mongabay: To save salt marshes, researchers deploy a wide arsenal of techniques
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 Fayetteville Observer: Coastal development endangers salt marshes, a resource vital to the Southeast's economy
Thousands of acres of salt marshes that buffer the South Atlantic coast from hurricanes, sustain the seafood industry and bolster the tourism economy are in danger of washing away, victims of booming ...
Coastal development endangers salt marshes, a resource vital to the Southeast's economy
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 ...
WBUR: Salt marshes soak up carbon. Restoring them is key to fighting climate change
Salt marshes soak up carbon. Restoring them is key to fighting climate change
WHYY: Novel method will help restore Delaware and New Jersey salt marshes
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 ...
EurekAlert!: Some coastal salt marshes are keeping up with sea level rise — for now
WASHINGTON — The world’s salty, tidal marshes are hotspots of carbon storage and productivity, building up sediments and plant material to stay above sea level. However, as sea level rises at an ...
Some coastal salt marshes are keeping up with sea level rise — for now
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 ...
Science Daily: Salt marshes' capacity to sink carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution
Salt marshes sequester carbon at rates an order of magnitude higher than land ecosystems. A new study indicates nitrate pollution of coastal waters stimulates the decomposition of organic matter in ...
Salt marshes' capacity to sink carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution
Scientists study salt marshes along scenic coastlines in the South. ) Along scenic coastlines in the South, waves of mesmerizing green and golden grass stretch to the horizon. This is the salt marsh - ...