and climate sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently announced in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface that salt marshes, critical habitats threatened by rapid ...

Massachusetts currently has the saltmarsh sparrow listed as a species of "special concern." Hopping calls this bird the “piping plover of the salt marsh." He said 10% of the global population ...

Because mud is where the mussels are. Tweitmann, a coastal restoration ecologist with Mass Audubon, had come to a salt marsh in Rowley, Massachusetts, to hunt for a creature called the ribbed mussel.

If you drive by salt marshes, you’ve likely seen black boxes placed here and there that resemble a cow or other grazing mammal. Those are the greenhead traps set out by Northeast Massachusetts ...

Massachusetts has by far the most blue carbon habitats in New England: more than 112,000 acres, or about half of the region’s total salt marshes and seagrass beds. The research was jump-started ...

“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 ...

variability of marsh pore water exchange and DIC export was assessed from a microtidal salt marsh (Sage Lot Pond, Massachusetts). Spatial variability was constrained from 224Ra : 228Th disequilibria ...