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 ...

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 ...

Venture into the salt marsh, a habitat teeming with diversity. Tony Mills takes viewers on a journey through marshes, creeks and rivers, encountering crabs, shrimp, sharks, Redfish and the ...

These tides flood the salt marshes, bringing new life to one of my favorite features of a salt marsh, the salt pannes. This is also one of the best times to visit a marsh by kayak or canoe.

New research, published in Global Change Biology, explores where the methane produced in soils of tidal salt marshes goes. UD researchers took their project to the St. Jones Reserve, a tidal salt ...

A salt marsh grows taller by accumulating silt and mud that flows off the landscape and settles beyond the reach of currents, so a smaller watershed means less sediment, ...

The degraded salt marsh at Joppa Flats in Newburyport in May 2022. (Courtesy Stephen Young) "I can't tell you a marsh that's not been impacted by some sort of legacy of human ditching or ...

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 ...

Salt marshes on the U.S. East Coast have accumulated soil more quickly over the past century, and some appear to be keeping pace with rising waters. But that won’t last forever.

Salt marsh loss resulted in 16.3 teragrams, or 16.3 million metric tons, of carbon emissions per year, according to the study. That’s the rough equivalent of the output of around 3.5 million cars.