The week that was, 11/28-12/4/2010

The marshes of Plum Island Estuary are among those predicted by scientists to submerge during the next century under conservative projections of sea-level rise. Location: Rowley, Massachusetts. Photo: Matthew Kirwan / US Geological Survey

Coastal wetlands provide critical services such as absorbing energy from coastal storms, preserving shorelines, protecting human populations and infrastructure, supporting commercial seafood harvests, absorbing pollutants and serving as critical habitat for migratory bird populations. — Many coastal wetlands likely to disappear this century, US Geological Survey press release about Limits on the adaptability of coastal marshes to rising sea level, a newly published report on climate change modeling in Geophysical Research Letters, December 1, 2010
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