More than three-quarters of the wetlands in southeastern New Jersey is saltwater tidal marshes, which provide a critical habitat for commercially important species of fish and crabs, as well as for ...

A new marsh restoration project aimed at stopping acres of essential wetlands from drowning and disappearing began at the Jersey Shore last week. New Jersey has more than 200,000 acres of salt marshes ...

Lenore Tedesco doesn't need to venture far to witness sea-level rise. She tracks its relentless advance from her window at work. Tedesco, executive director of the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, ...

For thousands of years, before climate change started accelerating, New Jersey’s coastal marshes slowly regenerated through a harmonious process that deposited sediment from adjoining waters and kept ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Showing people what she called the “wow factory” — the natural wonders that exist in New Jersey's own backyard — is what Gabrielle ...

Sedimentologist Kristen Joyse (at right), conducting research in 2021 as a Rutgers graduate student, extracts sediments from a salt marsh in Cheesequake State Park in New Jersey. Joyse, now of ...

An International study has analyzed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA. The analysis has identified key environmental factors affecting methane emissions and ...

STONE HARBOR, N.J. -- Lenore Tedesco doesn’t need to venture far to witness sea-level rise. She tracks its relentless advance from her window at work. Tedesco, executive director of the Wetlands ...