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Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise
This story is part of a series on marshes in Maine co-published with the Portland Press Herald. PORTLAND — It takes hundreds of years for a salt marsh to form, for fine sediment brought in on ...
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Bath-based estuary land trust to hold Zoom talk March 20
Learn how local tidal marshes help people, the stories they tell of the past, and what can be done to help them grow, adapt ...
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Land and sea life meet in salt marshes
but the overall takeaway is that marshes can pack in a lot of what scientists refer to as “blue carbon.” This was surprising to me as it is much more common to think of the open ocean as the ...
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UMass Amherst scientists find that coastal marshes absorb harmful carbon
If you’ve ever been to any shore line, especially one here in new England, you will have noticed the salt marshes that line ...
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New England’s salt marshes store 10 million cars’ worth of carbon—and add another 15,000-worth every year
travelling to 19 sites from Long Island Sound to the Gulf of Maine and collecting 410 samples representing multiple locations in each salt marsh. “We started looking at the satellite data ...