Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. People built mosquito ditches into Cape Cod’s salt marshes in the 1930s to drain ...

"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 ...

Once viewed as wastelands, or at best a source of inferior hay, we now know salt marshes are the engine that drives the marine economy. Tara Nye of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod has spent the ...

Cape Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a ...

Ecologists are wary of non-native species, but along the shores of Cape Cod where grass-eating crabs have been running amok and destroying the marsh, an invasion of predatory green crabs has helped ...

As recreational fishing activity has reduced predators in many of Cape Cod's salt marsh ecosystems, Sesarma crabs have feasted on grasses, causing dramatic die-offs of the marshes, according to a new ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Long vilified, invasive species can sometimes become an ecosystem asset. New Brown University research published online in the journal Ecology reports exactly ...