CARTERET COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A non-profit on the coast is now one step closer to creating a first-of-its-kind sustainable salt marsh nursery. The North Carolina Coastal Federation’s Stacia Strong ...

"This purple crab problem is very much like other ecological catastrophes that we've seen where one organism in a food web gets super abundant or out of control from loss of predation pressure, or ...

East Lyme — Salt marshes capture more carbon per square foot than rain forests. They act as sponges to absorb the intense rainfall more common with climate change. And they clean the polluted water ...

Tidal salt marshes are fairly common across the Mid-Atlantic. These coastal ecosystems provide habitat for plants, birds and fish. Existing at the intersection of land and sea, tidal salt marshes act ...