The native species, the purple marsh crab, feeds on cordgrass. In recent years, overfishing has depleted the crab’s predators. As purple marsh crab populations have soared, they’ve eaten increasing ...

When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

As salt-tolerant plants — smooth cordgrass, saltmarsh hay, saltgrass, black rush — begin to grow, their dense stems and roots trap more sediment, and the marsh builds more rapidly, up and out.

KIAWAH ISLAND — Aaron Given trudged through frigid, ankle-high water as dawn climbed lazily over the eastern horizon, tinting the salt marshes golden-red as it bloomed. The sun offered little ...

A mosquito ditch draining a small pond in a Cape Cod salt marsh, at a healthy site in ... on both sides by Spartina alterniflora. This tall cordgrass traps sediment and builds new habitat, keeping ...

The N.C. Coastal Federation, along with its partners NR Lands LLC and Backwater Environmental, have begun constructing a ...