Global study confirms importance of 'accommodation space' When Florence slogged ashore in North Carolina last week, coastal wetlands offered one of the best lines of defense against the hurricane’s ...

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The rates of today’s sea-level rise mean portions of coastal wetland ecosystems will be lost to the ocean in the years and decades to come at a tempo never seen before. Wetlands have flourished along ...

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While coastal wetlands serve as effective 'blue carbon' storage reservoirs for carbon dioxide, other marine ecosystems do not store carbon for long periods of time, a new analysis suggests. In the ...

UCSC researchers set up an “eddy covariance” tower in Elkhorn Slough with instruments for measuring environmental parameters, including the flux of carbon dioxide and methane into and out of the ...

U.S. Geological Survey Over the next century, sea level rise is expected to wreak havoc on the U.S. coastlines – and a new analysis shows that the Northwest is not immune. Nearly all coastal wetlands ...

Wetlands have flourished along the world’s coastlines for thousands of years, playing valuable roles in the lives of people and wildlife. They protect the land from storm surge, stop seawater from ...

Coastal wetlands -- such as salt marshes -- provide even more flood protection than previously thought, reducing risks to lives and homes in estuaries, a new study reveals. Research showed that ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Coastal communities around the world are facing increasing threats from tropical cyclones. Climate change is causing ...

When Florence slogged ashore in North Carolina last week, coastal wetlands offered one of the best lines of defense against the hurricane's waves and surge. A new study predicts such wetlands will ...