A drone photograph shows residential docks spanning a salt marsh in Wrightsville Beach. Salt marshes in North Carolina are being pushed back by rising sea waters, but aren’t always able to retreat due ...

IPSWICH — Geoff Wilson stood along the edge of a ditch a few hundred feet into the Great Salt Marsh near Crane Beach on Tuesday, looking into a path filled with water, wooden stakes and twine. Roughly ...

Salt marshes cover much of the state of Georgia’s coast and perform key "ecosystem services” for people. They clean the water, protect coastlines against storm surges, and provide a habitat for fish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. David S. Johnson A decade ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great ...

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Scientists in New England are trying to find the cause of a recently observed death in the coastal landscape. Patches of vibrant green grasses in the salt marshes are dying off, and it could have ...

As someone who regularly fishes Tampa Bay, Peter Clark knows how difficult it can be these days to bring home a legal-sized sea trout. And as a biologist with the Agency on Bay Management, Clark knows ...

Islands have shrunk and wetlands are disappearing. Scientists worry that climate change, sea level rise and humans themselves are putting South Atlantic tidelands in danger from North Carolina’s Outer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 30—IPSWICH — Geoff Wilson stood along the edge of a ditch a few hundred feet into the Great Salt Marsh by Crane Beach, looking ...

A new Georgia Tech study points to possible help for restoring marine ecosystems -- and provides more data on the role microbes play in marsh plant health and productivity. Salt marshes cover much of ...

On a recent weekend, a family went fishing feet away from a salt marsh in the northwest corner of Carolina Beach State Park, about 20 minutes south of downtown Wilmington. They were likely unaware ...

IPSWICH — Geoff Wilson stood along the edge of a ditch a few hundred feet into the Great Salt Marsh by Crane Beach on Tuesday, looking into a path filled with water, wooden stakes and twine. Roughly ...