This critical restoration effort was made possible through a partnership with ConocoPhillips and the Pointe-au-Chien Indian ...

Salt marshes along the entire West Coast could disappear ... a levee at Sears Point Ranch was breached to allow salt water to fill a 1,000-acre tidal marsh basin for the first time in more than a ...

These marshes experience tidal action, but because they are so far removed from the ocean and coastal bays, they do not get inundated with salt water but instead fresh or brackish water.

The salt water marsh at the Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine is showing signs of climate-related stress. (Rebecca Conley/Maine Public) ...

These marshes experience tidal action, but because they are so far removed from the ocean and coastal bays, they do not get inundated with saltwater, but instead with fresh or brackish water.

Saltwater marshes protect communities from flooding, and provide habitat for birds and fish. (Courtesy of Ducks Unlimited) Environmentalists from Ducks Unlimited and other organizations are using $500 ...

SOUTH BEND -- Scientists are hoping to restore a saltwater marsh that once nurtured salmon, shellfish and shore birds in a Pacific County estuary. One day in 2005, when the tide is low, a backhoe ...

To the editor: Except for environmentalists who understand their value, most of us, in our ignorance, would probably welcome the rising sea covering over those messy salt marshes.

As saltwater creeps upward and inward, freshwater wetlands and forests will transition to salt marsh and then, in many cases, to open water. If sea levels rise 2 feet, research indicates that tides ...

Saving shrimp, crabs, and oysters one salt marsh at a time is the main goal of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) after finalizing a saltwater marsh conservation plan. The ...

When saltwater begins destroying a marsh, Skrabal said, it will look like somebody dumped pollution on the ecosystem. This is happening in “splotches” up and down the North Carolina coast, ...

When saltwater begins destroying a marsh, Skrabal said, it will look like somebody dumped pollution on the ecosystem. This is happening in “splotches” up and down the North Carolina coast, ...