All this open water you see was once grassy.” That’s the way Lenore Tedesco, director of The Wetlands Institute, described what she could see from her office window overlooking Scotch Bonnet Island, a ...

Losing marshlands can mean losing both fragile ecosystems and important buffers against storm surges. Researchers raise red ...

Brookhaven's salt marsh restoration in Mastic Beach seeks to protect homes from flooding while enhancing local ecosystems and ...

They’re annoying, they can carry diseases and right now is the time we start to see and feel more mosquitos coming out.

The salt marshes that are vitally important in protecting shorelines from erosion are increasingly threatened with death by ...

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — St. Lucie County officials saw a sharp rise in coastal mosquitoes, doubling May treatments ...

Lee County Mosquito Control is working to address a surge in salt marsh mosquitoes along coastal areas, with aerial treatments underway to reduce the biting pests.

Lenore Tedesco doesn't need to venture far to witness sea-level rise. She tracks its relentless advance from her window at ...

Monomoy Island is one of the few remaining intact salt marsh ecosystems in New England and provides a good example of how these ecosystems are supposed to function. Crouching, Deirdre Robinson ...

Scientists say sea-level rise in New Jersey is twice the global average. The sea could rise two to five feet along the coast ...

However, to cover a larger area, he would need to rely on satellite images to show the spread of salt patches and marsh over a longer period, and these satellite images tend to be lower resolution ...