Between 28 and 57 percent of the state’s coastal marshes could disappear by the end of the century, victims of a rising sea, ...

The total productivity of plants at sequestering carbon varies based on the ecosystem it lives in. To identify different ...

Join wildlife biologist Joseph Smith on Zoom this Saturday, Feb. 15, as he discusses how historic ditching and farming of ...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources reports salt marsh habitats among the most productive ecosystems ... Litter pollution breeds piles of debris along the low-tide marshline from ...

Black ducks usually feed as singles, pairs, or small groups. As the tide rises, ducks will start to leave the salt marsh and fly to freshwater ponds and creeks to loaf. Getting set up at half tide ...

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 ...

Sea-level rise, as well as historic losses and degradation of salt marsh habitat, are the primary threats to the saltmarsh sparrow. High tides and storm surges are increasingly flooding sparrow nests ...