As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt.

Environmental scientists at Nottingham Trent University have identified exactly where coastal waters meet freshwater rivers, ...

Scientists warn rising sea levels could push important freshwater tidal areas up against man-made barriers such as weirs.

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The impacts of human activity and climate change are coalescing to make coastal lagoons saltier, changing the microbial life ...

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The team of researchers identified this abrupt, global decrease in freshwater using observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, operated by the German ...

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"Climate change has really ruined the natural ... the canal's competition with its surrounding communities for freshwater, said Panama City-based environmentalist Raisa Banfield.