Maine salt marshes are a key tool in the fight against climate change, acting as a buffer against storms and soaking up planet-warming emissions. These reservoirs of "blue carbon" can be 10 times more ...

Salt marsh restoration can mitigate flood risk and bolster community resilience to climate change in our local waterways, according to a recent study published in Scientific Reports by a postdoctoral ...

It doesn’t happen overnight. You first have to identify the project, and then you have to bring together the partners, and ...

Salt marshes are among coastal habitats endangered by both rising sea levels and urban development. Preserving and restoring salt marshes is essential not only for wildlife protection and natural ...

Rising sea levels on Long Island are impacting coastal forests and wildlife habitats, as climate change continues to alter ...

Salt marsh restoration can mitigate flood risk and bolster community resilience to climate change in our local waterways, according to a recent study published in Nature by a postdoctoral fellow with ...

The findings raise concerns for Connecticut's coastline, which already lost over a third of its tidal wetlands.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. David S. Johnson Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great ...

Walk past a fire department, an auto body shop, and Napoles Italian restaurant in heavily urbanized East Boston, then hang a right — suddenly, the cars, the traffic, and congestion are gone, and you ...

AMHERST, Mass. — 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 ...

A decade ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler ...