Tidal flats, which make up coastal wetlands, are facing unprecedented challenges because of increased human activities. They are widely recognized as sentinels of coastal environment change.

Tidal flats, which make up coastal wetlands, are facing unprecedented challenges because of increased human activities. They are widely recognized as sentinels of coastal environment change.

These tidal flats — or the muddy, marshy land that receive sediment deposits from bodies of water — can be an important asset, helping subdue storm surge.

Tidal flats protect against the ocean's destructive powers such as hurricanes. Without some inland spaces to move around, they will likely disappear, which will have dire consequences for ...

Zhenchang Zhu, Jim van Belzen, Qin Zhu, Johan van de Koppel, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Vegetation recovery on neighboring tidal flats forms an Achilles’ heel of saltmarsh resilience to sea level rise, ...

Lei Chen, Zeng Zhou, Fan Xu, Iris Möller, Changkuan Zhang, Field Observation of Saltmarsh-Edge Morphology and Associated Vegetation Characteristics in an Open-Coast Tidal Flat, Journal of Coastal ...

News Release 17-Feb-2025 NIOZ researchers make dataset on tidal flats of entire Wadden Sea available Peer-Reviewed Publication Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research image: ...

Tidal flats in eastern China to host 300 MW of solar Developers have already connected 3 MW of capacity in what is purportedly destined to be the world’s largest PV array on a coastal tidal flat.

Built on degraded tidal flats in China’s Jiangsu Province, CHN Energy’s Rudong project combines 400 MW of offshore photovoltaic generation, grid-scale battery storage, and green hydrogen ...

A man died in Alaska on Sunday after he got trapped waist-deep in tidal mud flats and was submerged by the incoming tide, state troopers said. Zachary Porter, 20, of Illinois, got stuck in the mud ...

Whether Korea’s tidal flats, or “gaetbeol,” make it onto UNESCO’s list of Natural World Heritage sites will be decided soon as the World Heritage Committee meeting kicks off on Friday.