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Protective salt marshes along coasts are in danger across the globe but it's not too late to act, researchers say
Salt marshes are grassy coastal wetlands with deep mud or peat that are flooded and drained by tidal salt water daily. The study tested a spatio-temporal model at Belle Isle Marsh that measured ...
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Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise
Salt marshes are ten times more effective at storing ... Over the past 25 years, nearly 300 acres of Maine’s wetlands — both fresh and saltwater — have been impacted by or lost to ...
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Everglades Threatened by City to the East, Salt Water From the West
A map that distinguishes natural from human-made features shows how both threaten Florida’s immense and unique freshwater marsh. ByMatthew W. Chwastyk This story appears in the September 2018 ...