Cool stuff happens in salt marshes. Signs in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park describe the life cycle of parasitic trematodes (eew, right?), whose function is so important that it warrants an ...

People look at a marsh and think they understand it, but the real story is underground," said University of Georgia Professor ...

Marshes have been called the "kidneys of the landscape" because they clean pollutants from water. They also protect communities against storm surges and erosion, and are better than forests at ...

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The marshes of southern Iraq, devastated in recent decades by Saddam Hussein's regime, are showing a "remarkable" recovery, according to an ecological survey team led by scientists at Duke University ...

A Wednesday trip to the marshes of Grand Bay was most notable for what was absent. There were no oiled birds, no heaps of dead fish on shore, no crabs covered in glops of tar. Aside from the miles of ...

Looking across a 1,500-acre reach of coastal marsh on the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area on a late-summer afternoon in 2018, it would be hard to reconcile the robust wetland in Southeast Texas ...

Salt marshes sequester significant carbon in their sediment — more per hectare than tropical rainforests. They protect the land from storm surges and sea level rise, and they shelter a variety of ...