The site now known as Marsh Island in Fairhaven will eventually expand to 11 acres of restored salt marsh. For now, the ...
Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud. “This is a place where you could get ...
GEMS, ONE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE. IT IS IN A CITY YOU CAN RIDE THE BLUE LINE TO THE SUFFOLK DOWNS STATION, CROSS THE STREET AND YOU’RE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SPACE. FEELS LIKE ...
Spring is a lovely time to go to the coast. Most of us gravitate towards the beaches, but it can also be fun to visit the salt marshes that line our coastline — estuaries, where rivers meet the sea.
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 ...
The sparrows are endemic to the marshes on the East Coast — they exist nowhere else in the world. But those habitats and the birds that depend on them are quickly disappearing, in part due to the ...
UD researchers combine field data and machine learning algorithm to find salt patches on farmland tripled since 2011 in Delmarva Salty soils are causing reduced crop density, lower yields and barren ...