Salt marshes lace much of the South Coast shoreline, but not in New Bedford. Development of the harbor displaced nearly all traces of them more than a century ago. Now, with climate resilience in mind ...
A $50,000 grant will help reconnect Riverside Park's pond to the Acushnet River, creating a salt marsh. The project is part of a larger effort to restore the New Bedford Harbor, a Superfund site that ...
As you may know by now, my strategy to defeat climate change is to put water that came from land back on land. Melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica and melting snow from the great mountain ...
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. But now, a ...
Coastal Georgia regulators want to change a rule designed to protect the state’s marshes, which serve as a buffer against storms and rising sea levels and a vital part of the coastal ecosystem. But ...
This piece was shared as part of the series Sinking in Saltwater, co-published by The Maine Monitor and Portland Press Herald, with support from the Pulitzer Center's nationwide Connected Coastlines ...
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Sea-level rise and erosion are threatening South Carolina’s nearly 350,000 acres of salt marsh, among the highest acreage on the East Coast. To combat the threats, the South Atlantic Salt Marsh ...