CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Volunteers have proved essential every step of the way along the years-long journey to restore the Ashleyville area marsh, most recently helping harvest spartina grass that ...

The Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana is seeking volunteers to plant marsh grass in the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in the Lacombe area. The event will be held April 9-11, and ...

TUCKERTON - The rain has subsided and the floodwater has receded from the properties along the man-made lagoons in the borough, but as they do, they have revealed a different foe - marsh grass. At its ...

WADMALAW ISLAND — All school year, the students at Edith L. Frierson Elementary School watched the marsh grass in the school’s greenhouse grow from seeds while learning about salt marshes, including ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — A well-used waterway and marsh in the West Ashley neighborhood is undergoing restoration efforts after years of storm and other damage. The Old Town Creek, which runs through ...

The study was conducted in North Inlet marsh, shown here, which is typical of salt marshes along the southeast coast of North America. The marsh is covered with a monoculture of the grass Spartina ...

The study focused on the marsh grass Spartina alterniflora, which is found along much of the U.S. coast. The researchers examined the entire Georgia coast—an area for which they had extensive field ...

While a single plant is capable of fixing inorganic carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the air, the entire ecosystem surrounding the ...

Researchers have revealed the declining health of coastal marshes several years before visible signs of decline, providing an early warning and opportunity to protect an ecosystem that serves as the ...