A new systems-theory framework argues that estuaries must be managed as interconnected wholes, using emergy analysis to ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Decades of sediment pollution, contamination and government infrastructure projects have disrupted the natural flow of saltwater and freshwater ...

A three-year study of India's Ashtamudi Estuary shows that phosphates and nitrates drive chlorophyll-a levels, and that a ...

Bioengineering Restoration of Wetland Ecosystems' as Demonstrated by the Sendai River Estuary in Satsumasendai CityPrevious ...

The waters of the St. Lawrence Estuary are running out of breath. The lack of oxygen in deep waters is affecting the organisms that live on the bottom of the estuary. How do deep ecosystems react to ...

In the 1980s, the Elbe estuary had largely lost its function as an estuarine filter due to heavy metal pollution. After decades, the estuary was able to recover from this, as a team led by doctoral ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (Feb. 21, 2023) -- When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with associated travel restrictions, Matthew Long thought his students could shift their overseas research projects to ...

Estuaries are one of the most valuable biomes on Earth, and megafires -- like Australia's 2019/20 Black Summer fires -- represent an emerging threat to estuarine and coastal ecosystems, with the ...

Sea otters returned to California’s Elkhorn Slough in 1984 when pollution had severely affected its ecosystem. Their recovery triggered changes across the food web, helping eelgrass beds expand by 600 ...

Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water—a ...

The waters of the St. Lawrence Estuary are running out of breath. The lack of oxygen in deep waters is affecting the organisms that live on the bottom of the estuary. How do deep ecosystems react to ...