Eelgrass is a critical habitat for fish, protects against coastal erosion and stores carbon. But it's threatened by pollution and climate change. Dozens of local scientists are working to protect ...

The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an immigrant detention center.

Researchers are studying the role of eelgrass beds for carbon capture and the health of the habitat for a variety of species.

Eelgrass may become the official marine flora of Massachusetts, thanks to a bill proposed by two North Shore teenagers who want recognition for this little-known but ecologically important plant.

Discover how Alligator Alcatraz came to be in the Everglades and the challenges it faces from environmentalists over potential ecological damage.

If methods for growing more eelgrass from seed are successfully developed for bio-based building, it’s possible that from it even more eelgrass could be propagated into the wild.

Eelgrass meadows rapidly decline as Casco Bay waters warm Climate change is blamed for contributing to a 54% reduction in Casco Bay's eelgrass meadows from 2018 to 2022.

The most obvious is the lack of vegetation beyond reeds and eelgrass near the shoreline; there is no foliage at all along the lake's consistent depths of 10-12 feet.

Eelgrass – a humble but critical part of a healthy estuary ­– faces threats across the globe from development, pollution and warming oceans. But in Tillamook Bay, state wildlife officials and ...

The Richardson Bay Regional Agency has officially launched the “eelgrass protection zone,” a milestone in a long effort to restore the ecological resource. The move is part of an initiative to ...

Volunteers gathered in Clinton on Wednesday with the goal of restoring more eelgrass to the Long Island Sound. Their method was to glue eelgrass seeds onto clams. About 20,000 seeds were then put ...

Climate change has taken a devastating toll on eelgrass, a kind of seagrass, in some areas of the Salish Sea. Declines of 90% and more have been documented in the San Juan Islands because of a ...