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

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 ...

WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND. Brookhaven Town is planning a 147-acre salt marsh restoration in Mastic Beach to protect inland properties against surge from future storms.; The plan includes creation 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since salt marshes absorb 30 times as much CO2 as a forest, ... Bacan (pictured) has now been colonised by plants including ...

Here, coastal trails wind though still-standing forests, and wild and wet salt marshes stretch to the sea. With their feet in the sand, it's easy to forgive visitors to this lightly visited corner ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the North River, the sanctuary's fields, oak forest and salt marsh attract a wide variety of birds, and seals are often visible from the riverside platform. 2000 Main St. 781-837-9400.

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 ...