What is the state of estuarine ecosystem restoration? Many estuaries show no significant ecological improvement despite many years of extensive restoration and conservation efforts. Increasing ...

Estuaries are dynamic ecosystems that have some of the highest biotic diversity and levels of production in the world. Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of estuaries around ...

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a strain of bacteria that ...

The key is found in estuaries, those beautiful coastal areas where freshwater and saltwater mix. It turns out, the difference in salt concentration between the two water sources can be used to gen ...

Most everyone is familiar with carbon dioxide (CO2), but methane and nitrous oxide are considerable contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and are more cost-effective to reduce. To further ...

A new study by Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has revealed a potential link between red tide algal blooms and long-term ...

Wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and ...

Conservation groups today filed a petition asking the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to adopt regulations that would ...