Mangrove restoration
Mangrove restoration repairs or rebuilds degraded mangrove wetlands by restoring tidal conditions, protecting natural recovery, and planting only where the site can support mangroves.
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Coastal wetlands
Coastal wetlands are wetland habitats in coastal watersheds, including salt marshes, mangroves, tidal marshes, and coastal swamps.
Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the long-term decrease in ocean pH caused mainly by seawater absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Storm surge
Storm surge is the abnormal rise of seawater pushed toward shore by a storm, often causing dangerous coastal flooding during hurricanes and tropical storms.
Seagrass meadows
Seagrass meadows are underwater habitats formed by marine flowering plants that shelter wildlife, stabilize sediment, improve water clarity, and store blue carbon.
Oyster reefs
Oyster reefs are living shellfish structures in coastal and estuarine waters that filter water, create habitat, support fisheries, and can help buffer shorelines.
Managed retreat
Managed retreat is the planned movement of people, buildings, infrastructure, or land uses away from places where flooding, erosion, or sea level rise make staying increasingly risky.
Beach nourishment
Beach nourishment adds compatible sand or sediment to an eroding beach to widen the shore, rebuild dunes, and reduce some coastal storm and erosion risks.
Stream restoration
Stream restoration repairs or improves degraded stream channels and riparian areas so water, sediment, habitat, and floodplain processes work more naturally.
Blue carbon
Blue carbon is carbon captured and stored by ocean and coastal ecosystems, especially mangroves, salt marshes, seagrasses, and their waterlogged soils.
Living shorelines
Living shorelines use natural materials and coastal habitats to stabilize sheltered shores while supporting wildlife, cleaner water, and resilience.
Salt marshes
Salt marshes are coastal wetlands flooded and drained by tides, where salt-tolerant plants build habitat between land and sea.
Green infrastructure
Green infrastructure uses plants, soils, permeable surfaces, and natural processes to manage stormwater while adding benefits for water, heat, habitat, and communities.
Riparian buffers
Riparian buffers are vegetated strips beside streams, rivers, lakes, or wetlands that help protect water, stabilize banks, and connect habitats.
Stormwater
Stormwater is rain or melting snow that runs off land and hard surfaces, carrying water and pollutants through neighborhoods, pipes, streams, and watersheds.