Salt marshes serve as a buffer between land and sea-filtering nutrients, run-off, heavy metals, even shielding coastal areas from storm surges, floods, and erosion.

These transitional ecosystems are vital in combating climate change by taking carbon out of our atmosphere (carbon sequestration).

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PWF / Tidal marsh

NOAA / What is a salt marsh?

26.10.2022 / LA Times / Saving a marsh and town in the face of sea level rise