A three-year study of India's Ashtamudi Estuary shows that phosphates and nitrates drive chlorophyll-a levels, and that a ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (Feb. 21, 2023) -- When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with associated travel restrictions, Matthew Long thought his students could shift their overseas research projects to ...

A continental-scale analysis of five U.S. estuaries finds that urbanized systems showed unexpectedly high resistance to ...

In the 1980s, the Elbe estuary had largely lost its function as an estuarine filter due to heavy metal pollution. After decades, the estuary was able to recover from this, as a team led by doctoral ...

A new study has uncovered the significant role stingrays play in shaping estuaries, revealing threatened stingrays in Brisbane Water may move more than 21,000 tonnes of sand per year. University of ...

Bioengineering Restoration of Wetland Ecosystems' as Demonstrated by the Sendai River Estuary in Satsumasendai CityPrevious ...

Estuaries are one of the most valuable biomes on Earth, and megafires -- like Australia's 2019/20 Black Summer fires -- represent an emerging threat to estuarine and coastal ecosystems, with the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Decades of sediment pollution, contamination and government infrastructure projects have disrupted the natural flow of saltwater and freshwater ...

Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water—a ...

As sea levels rise due to climate change, encroaching seawater will likely make freshwater environments saltier. In a new study, MIT researchers have shown how that increase in salinity might affect ...

Join us for an interactive walk and panel at the Tijuana River Estuary, Southern California’s largest wetlands, where we will delve into the unique ecosystem and discuss the transboundary water crisis ...