It gave us an accurate measure of the spatial extent of a particular land cover class, and we focused on salt patches and marsh because they are the most prominent land covers when dealing with ...

These tides flood the salt marshes, bringing new life to one of my favorite features of a salt marsh, the salt pannes. This is also one of the best times to visit a marsh by kayak or canoe.

Salt marsh loss resulted in 16.3 teragrams, or 16.3 million metric tons, of carbon emissions per year, according to the study. That’s the rough equivalent of the output of around 3.5 million cars.

New hand-carved creeks in the Maryville marsh could make the salt marsh more resilient to drought, floods, sea-level rise and climate change and sustain life.

The degraded salt marsh at Joppa Flats in Newburyport in May 2022. (Courtesy Stephen Young) "I can't tell you a marsh that's not been impacted by some sort of legacy of human ditching or ...

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 ...

Salt marshes lace much of the South Coast shoreline, but not in New Bedford. Development of the harbor displaced nearly all traces of them more than a century ago. Now, with climate resilience in mind ...

Belle Isle Marsh, in the shadow of Logan Airport, is a place for nature lovers to stroll through trails and grasslands, cross over streams, and look for osprey, egrets, and the endangered ...