In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...

Scientists have demonstrated that New England’s salt marshes sequester carbon equivalent to the emissions of roughly 10 million cars within their top meter of soil. Furthermore, their research ...

On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...

Between 28 and 57 percent of the state’s coastal marshes could disappear by the end of the century, victims of a rising sea, ...

The grass is tallest and most productive near ... that the variability in net carbon sequestration between different salt marshes is due to changes in differences in relative marsh elevation ...

The long stretch of salt marshes you see driving over Lowcountry bridges serve many purposes for the ecosystem, but their treatment is often overlooked.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495244 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495244 We fertilized four separate areas of salt-marsh cord grass, Spartina alterniflora, in ...

With diamond-patterned shells and speckled skin, these stunning turtles are a keystone species in the salt marshes and mangroves where they live. They help keep these ecosystems healthy by eating ...

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...

which is typical of salt marshes along the southeast coast of North America. The marsh is covered with a monoculture of the grass Spartina alterniflora. The tides rise about twice daily to flood ...