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The Good News: Wetlands Can Keep Up with Sea Level Rise to Offset Climate Change

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tang_salt_marsh2013-slider2By Stephanie M. McPherson WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Coastal wetlands provide stunning views and are hosts to  a vast biodiversity. But they provide another service to the warming Earth: they capture carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in their sediment at high rates. In the United States alone, coastal wetlands can offset the yearly […]

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