While most conversations about fighting climate change focus on solar panels, wind turbines, or planting trees, one of the ...

In his speech for the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR) this past spring, keynote speaker Rodney Butler '99 (BUS), Chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, told an ...

Mangroves and wetlands are losing their ability to store carbon as climate risks grow and the threats posed by rising sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salt marshes occupy the dynamic interface between land and sea, subjecting microbial communities to fluctuating salinity, redox gradients and nutrient inputs. These microbes—principally bacteria and ...

Tidal marsh at the Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research (PIE-LTER) site, where this collaborative research will be conducted. The Simons Foundation has awarded $8.4 million to support ...

MARRERO, LA, UNITED STATES, March 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The marshes and swamps of coastal Louisiana represent one of the most complex and ecologically ...

The study was conducted in North Inlet marsh, shown here, which is typical of salt marshes along the southeast coast of North America. The marsh is covered with a monoculture of the grass Spartina ...

Genevieve Noyce sits, surrounded by marsh grass and infrared heating lamps. The lamps are used to create a warmer environment for the plants to grow in (relevant to the surrounding air) as a part of ...