The world lost 1,453 square kilometers (561 square miles) of salt marsh between 2000 and 2019, an area twice the size of Singapore, according to a new study based on satellite imagery. In addition to ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has a silent, largely unheralded protector: salt marshes. These muddy patches just inland from coastal mangrove forests play crucial roles in keeping the reef as healthy ...

Tidal salt marshes are fairly common across the Mid-Atlantic. These coastal ecosystems provide habitat for plants, birds and fish. Existing at the intersection of land and sea, tidal salt marshes act ...

New research into Georgia's salt marsh found even healthy looking grass had decline in their below-ground root systems, a ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - The long stretch of salt marshes you see driving over Lowcountry bridges serve many purposes for the ecosystem, but their treatment is often overlooked. The South ...

WOODS HOLE, MASS. -- Cape Cod’s salt marshes are as iconic as they are important. These beautiful, low-lying wetlands are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an ...

Salt marshes are an integral part of New England’s coastal ecosystem, but the erosion of some marshes is affecting their ability to protect habitats and humans. Get NHPR's reporting about politics, ...

Trustees on the Coast is working to heal the Great Marsh. Old farmers’ ditches have weakened the marsh by impacting the natural draining process. The idea is to remediate the ditches so the ecosystem ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On January 26, 1700, ...

Salt marshes are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an outsized role in nitrogen cycling, act as carbon sinks, protect coastal development from storm surge, and ...