Rising seas are drowning New Jersey wetlands. A new round of state climate funding aims to make them more resilient.

MIDDLE TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) -- Just outside Stone Harbor, New Jersey, environmental educator Danielle Meeker taught a group of preschoolers about some of the creatures inside the touch tank at The ...

New Jersey is spending $11 million on nature-based projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere and fight climate change. Stone Harbor in Cape May County, Stafford Township in Ocean County and ...

Sedimentologist Kristen Joyse (at right), conducting research in 2021 as a Rutgers graduate student, extracts sediments from a salt marsh in Cheesequake State Park in New Jersey. Joyse, now of ...

Salt marshes, those critical habitats that protect coastal towns from flooding, store massive amounts of blue carbon, support fisheries and play a key role in ecological resilience, are struggling to ...

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 ...

In the race to combat global climate change, much attention has been given to natural 'carbon sinks:' those primarily terrestrial areas of the globe that absorb and sequester more carbon than they ...