JSTOR Daily

Salt Marsh and Fringing Oyster Reef Transgression in a Shallow Temperate Estuary: Implications for Restoration, Conservation and Blue Carbon

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 40, No. 4 (JULY 2017), pp. 1013-1027 (15 pages) The importance of intertidal estuarine habitats, like salt marsh and oyster reef, has been well established, as has their ...
JSTOR Daily

Seasonal variability of saltwater intrusion at a point-source submarine groundwater discharge

Submarine groundwater discharge provides freshwater and nutrients to coastal environments. In some places throughout the world, this direct connection between aquifers and oceans may also allow ...
Nature

The Formation of Coral Reefs

CORAL reefs are divided into three classes, fringing, barrier and atoll. A fringing reef forms a terrace at the low tide level, extending out from the coast of any land, while a barrier reef is a ...
Hebdo Ahram

Egypt declares The Great Fringing Reef of the Egyptian Red Sea a protected area

Egypt’s Ministry of Local Development announced on Tuesday that the government has designated the Great Fringing Reef of the Egyptian Red Sea as a new marine protected area, following Prime ...