"People don't come onto the [salt marsh] to destroy it," Del Riccio told ABC News. "They just don't know the values and that ...

Salt marshes buffer our coastline from erosion ... They're a really excellent habitat for many different kinds of organisms. And probably the most important function is that they keep building ...

Salt marshes, excellent reservoirs of carbon, are living ecosystems with vegetation and microscopic organisms that live, breathe, poop and die in the marsh mud. “This is a place where you could ...

LONDON – An international team of scientists identified plastic-eating bacteria and fungi in Chinese coastal salt marshes ... in May 2021 sampled micro-organisms from China’s Dafeng, a ...

"Salt marshes, like those at Upper Newport Bay ... These small but mighty organisms absorb CO 2, convert it into organic matter, and, depending on the species, either sequester this carbon ...

“Salt marshes themselves are storing carbon and ... introducing better prepared plants. “So taking organisms from farther south and moving them up here with the expectation that they will ...

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.