Much of Boston used to be marshland like this, including the Back Bay, South Bay, Mill Pond and more. Those areas were filled ...

The perfect escape from the city is on South Carolina's coast and is a hidden gem town that is filled with sandy beaches and ...

A wetland is a stew of botanical life and can absorb and release heat from the sun. Try taking a whirl through these four ...

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The CMP said that Paget Marsh’s boggy nature has helped to protect it from construction and deforestation, with populations of cedar, palmetto and wax myrtle left “virtually untouched”.

It’s a long way from the crowded Beltway around Washington DC to the Appalachian Mountains near Cumberland Gap. It’s even farther if you make a detour to the coastal marshes of the Delmarva Peninsula.

Marshes provide many ecosystem benefits. They are habitat for birds and crustaceans, such as salt marsh sparrows, marsh wrens, crabs and mussels. They are also a niche for native salt-tolerant plants, ...

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 ...

Marshes provide many ecosystem benefits. They are habitats for birds and crustaceans, such as salt marsh sparrows, marsh wrens, crabs, and mussels.

According to the trade journal Land and Water, the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was in a bind. They had planned for an annual attendance of fewer than 10,000 visitors a year ...

We would walk around the island to find a cedar that we thought would meet Mama’s approval — but not too big since we had to carry the tree in our boat back across the marsh. After sawing down ...