New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon—and add another 15,000 cars' worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural carbon sinks: those primarily ...
A complex task: Carbon sequestration in marshes depends on many variables
While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the plant, including water, other organisms and soil conditions, influences how ...
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Blue carbon. Why coastal salt marshes?
Few people appreciate that the nearby Olonne marshes form a veritable laboratory for blue carbon. Coastal salt marshes are ...
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Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise
Between 28 and 57 percent of the state’s coastal marshes could disappear by the end of the century, victims of a rising sea, ...
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Lowcountry man sweeps salt marsh in response to litter crisis: “It’s everywhere”
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 ...
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Scientists boost salt-resistant herb to utilize briny fields
The method, which is simple and efficient, offers hope for the mass cultivation of the salt marsh plant ... the scientists took samples of glasswort, soil and water at six locations in Hokkaido ...
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Nature reserve built with help of soil from Crossrail scheme is to expand
A marshland nature reserve built with the help of more than three million tonnes of soil from the Crossrail ... a new 115-hectare intertidal area of salt marsh, islands and mudflats at the Crouch ...