“Super-heated sediments can cook the water, so within a few short hours the temperature is intolerable for some species,” she ...

The key is found in estuaries, those beautiful coastal areas where freshwater and saltwater mix. It turns out, the difference in salt concentration between the two water sources can be used to gen ...

Professor Karin Bryan is the recipient of a Marsden Fund grant to investigate these heat waves and joins Emile Donovan.

New Zealand’s estuaries are facing increasingly extreme heatwaves, scientists warn, posing a serious threat to crucial marine ...

What is the state of estuarine ecosystem restoration? Many estuaries show no significant ecological improvement despite many years of extensive restoration and conservation efforts. Increasing ...

Estuaries are dynamic ecosystems that have some of the highest biotic diversity and levels of production in the world. Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of estuaries around ...

A first-of-its-kind study led by William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS is predicting estuaries along the East Coast of the ...

The Chesapeake Bay area could have up to a third of the year under marine heat wave conditions by the end of the century, according to a new study from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Wetlands, rivers, lakes, and coastal estuaries are all aquatic ecosystems—critical elements of Earth’s dynamic processes and essential to human economies and health. Wetlands connect land and ...

A new study is predicting estuaries along the East Coast of the U.S. will experience marine heat wave conditions up to a third of the year by the end of the century. A first-of-its-kind study led ...