Marshes provide multiple benefits to the environment, from biodiversity of plant and animal species to filtering clean water and providing local flood protection. A view of the Bride Brook salt ...

Visible salt patches appear on the soil, and, in some cases, areas once used for growing crops may fully convert into marshes. At the University of Delaware, Pinki Mondal, associate professor and ...

Melbourne Lake Salt Marsh is located just outside of Yarmouth near Arcadia Salt Marsh, Tusket Islands Wilderness Area, and the Melbourne Lake Game Sanctuary. Here, 152 acres (61.5 hectares ...

MIT researchers discovered that restoring salt marshes in front of seawalls significantly reduces construction costs and enhances storm protection. Their study demonstrates that even small marsh areas ...

Even today, if you take a boat out at dawn, its salt marshes can feel prehistoric. Yet this morning women are moving gracefully through the eerie wetlands that are one of our most precious ...

“If something isn’t done to counter those forces, this will be gone.” Salt marshes also play a critical role absorbing and storing carbon dioxide in the ground, keeping greenhouse gases that ...

Choose herbs and spices that will add typical French flavors to your meal and are only available from protected areas, such as salt from the marshes of Guérande in western France or the Camargue ...

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Long Branch Creek was once a vibrant tidal waterway. The West Ashley creek was part of a system of wetlands connecting the Ashley and Stono rivers, providing acres of protection and spawning ...

Image In Aigues-Mortes, France, fleur de sel comes from the Mediterranean Sea, which flows into the salt marshes of the Camargue through a system of canals that has existed since at least Roman ...

California's valuable remaining salt marshes are disappearing. Climate change, with its melting glaciers and warming seas, threatens to drown the remaining coastal marshes out of existence.