THE tide was ebbing furiously, impatient to leave the malodorous, viscid mud banks of the tortuous creeks and return to the cool, clean ocean. Areas of thatch appeared gradually above the receding ...

CHARLESTOWN — On a late spring day at the height of the spawning season for horseshoe crabs in Rhode Island, signs of the ancient creatures are all around the salt marsh that rings Quonochontaug Pond, ...

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.

The volunteers walked gingerly in single file, feeling with their feet for the wooden planks buried in pluff mud. The planks made it easier to walk through the salt marsh, but they were beginning to ...

WADMALAW ISLAND — All school year, the students at Edith L. Frierson Elementary School watched the marsh grass in the school’s greenhouse grow from seeds while learning about salt marshes, including ...

Residents living near the Belle Isle salt marsh in Boston Harbor say they are concerned about flooding and its impact on their homes, according to a new survey from Northeastern University and The ...

Some salt marsh sparrows out on New Hampshire’s seacoast are now flying around with brand new backpacks. The accessory is actually a solar-powered tag the size of a fingernail, which will help ...

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 ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 40, No. 4 (JULY 2017), pp. 1013-1027 (15 pages) The importance of intertidal estuarine habitats, like salt marsh and oyster reef, has been well established, as has their ...