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New England's salt marshes store 10 million cars' worth of carbon -- and add another 15,000-worth every year
In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...
Four Bay Area locations are sinking at an alarming rate, with implications for sea level rise
Land is sinking at an alarming rate in some parts of the Bay Area, exposing shorelines to worse threats from sea level rise than was previously projected, a new study has found. Several places along ...
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US region’s salt marshes store 10 million cars’ worth of carbon, outperform forests
Scientists have demonstrated that New England’s salt marshes sequester carbon equivalent to the emissions of roughly 10 million cars within their top meter of soil. Furthermore, their research ...
SC's saltmarsh sparrows are going extinct. What do they tell us about a changing climate?
On an average, it takes up to 12 years to add a species to the federal Endangered Species list, a backlog activists say puts ...