Sea level rise in N.J. is running at twice the global average and that's bad news for New Jersey’s 200,000 acres of tidal wetlands.

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge and the Long Beach Island ocean beaches. The refuge includes more than 43,000 acres of southern New Jersey coastal ... in the refuge is Bonnet Island, Stafford ...

All this open water you see was once grassy.” That’s the way Lenore Tedesco, director of The Wetlands Institute, described what she could see from her office window overlooking Scotch Bonnet Island, a ...