Geographers have traditionally mapped estuaries by recording where wetland plants are growing. Endris and colleagues found that this approach often underestimates the size of an estuary because ...

After less than a year of fundraising to save an ecologically vulnerable area in a Pender County beach town, a nonprofit has ...

Covering 3,518 square kilometers, the total area comprises 1,371 square kilometers of land and 2,147 sq km of sea, protecting rare estuary wetlands, endangered bird species and a unique river-sea ...