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

Most recently, Professor of Biology Linda Walters and a team from the University of Central Florida harvested 100 plugs of the salt marsh grass species Spartina alterniflora from the marsh area.

Tropicalization has had a cascading effect on Florida ecosystems ... mangrove islands to replace the previously dominant salt marsh vegetation. For centuries in Tampa Bay, remnant shorelines ...

As the warm weather and rainy season settle in across Southwest Florida, so does the start of mosquito season.

A living shoreline being constructed in the Florida Panhandle's Apalachicola ... 20 acres of engineered oyster reefs and 30 acres of salt marshes through intertidal marsh construction, according ...

both in rivers and underground through the porous limestone beneath South Florida. Saltwater intrusion also occurs when wells draw down aquifers to provide water for drinking or irrigation. That ...

Visible salt patches appear on the soil, and, in some cases, areas once used for growing crops may fully convert into marshes. At the University of Delaware, Pinki Mondal, associate professor and ...