Our Christmas tree each season was a red cedar that always came from a small, uninhabited island, or hammock, in the salt marsh. Red cedars grew in profusion on the marsh island, probably because ...

Winnapaug Farm Preserve has hay fields, stone walls, stands of cedar trees and an extensive salt marsh around Winnapaug Pond, a favorite spot for shellfishing. Avondale Farm Preserve offers flat ...

Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an ...

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 ...

Trees, deprived of fresh water, are stressed as salt accumulates. Yet the transition from living forest to marsh isn’t necessarily a tragedy, Gedan says. Marshes are important features of ...

Visible salt patches appear on the soil, and, in some cases, areas once used for growing crops may fully convert into marshes. At the University of Delaware, Pinki Mondal, associate professor and ...

The saltmarsh sparrow’s existence depends on the coastal marshes found from Virginia to Maine. Their decline reveals an ecosystem on the brink. Bri Benvenuti, a technician with the U.S. Fish and ...

And as a crowd watched from a nearby hilltop, waters poured into a former industrial salt pond, 300 acres that will slowly and steadily turn into the Bay Area's newest tidal marsh. "Nature can ...

The salt marshes that are vitally important in protecting shorelines from erosion are increasingly threatened with death by drowning, scientists say. Sea level rise and human activities such as ...