WILDCOAST is an international conservation organization working to protect coastal ecosystems and address climate change ...

Freshwater and coastal waters may cover just a small portion of the planet, but they turn out to be powerful contributors to ...

Seagrass meadows, salt marshes, and marine sediments sequester carbon dioxide, mitigating climate change while increasing ...

Coastal ecosystems also store and cycle nutrients and help protect shorelines from erosion and storms. Mangroves, wetlands, and seagrass beds filter or degrade toxic pollutants, absorb nutrient ...

In one of the top Arctic birding destinations in the world, environmental and health challenges are threatening some of the seabirds that are part of Norway’s unique coastal ecosystem ...

"Coastal ecosystems across the globe including saltmarshes, mangroves, seagrasses, oyster reefs, kelp beds and coral reefs have declined by up to 85 per cent over decades," Dr Saunders said. " ...

Australia's coastal ecosystems alone save the rest of the world costs of around 23 billion US dollar a year by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Coastal ecosystems such as seagrass meadows, salt ...

Seagrasses are critical to coastal ecosystems—offering habitat, stabilizing the seafloor and buffering wave energy—but globally they're increasingly under threat. Beginning in 2011, a series ...

A new greenhouse gas budget shows coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2) but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the ...

Global marine fish production has increased sixfold since 1950. However, this larger catch has meant greater impacts on marine ecosystems. Approximately 75 percent of the major fisheries are fully ...