Nearly $24 million in federal funds are coming to Cape Cod for coastal resiliency, habitat and marshland restoration projects and for removing derelict fishing gear from waters off Cape Cod. Five ...

"This purple crab problem is very much like other ecological catastrophes that we've seen where one organism in a food web gets super abundant or out of control from loss of predation pressure, or ...

Ditches at sites with heavy recreational fishing pressure are denuded by Sesarma herbivory and widen over time through erosion and continued herbivory. Ditches at this site were dug in the 1930s at ...

This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. David Johnson had been working in the ...

WOODS HOLE, MASS. -- Cape Cod’s salt marshes are as iconic as they are important. These beautiful, low-lying wetlands are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an ...

A visit to New England is like getting the opportunity to step into the past — given the area's penchant for preservation and stellar site interpretation, visiting some of the country's most historic ...

David Johnson had been working in the salt marshes of Plum Island, just south of New Hampshire’s border, for about a decade when he spotted an unusual small crustacean descend quickly into a burrow in ...