TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – About half a football field of marshes on the edges of Mobile Bay vanished annually over the past 35 years, according to a study by researchers at The University of Alabama.

The study of satellite and aerial images from 1984 to 2019 showed a loss of about 30 percent of saltwater marshes, critical for the health of oceans. The annual decrease of roughly 2,488 square meters means about 1% of marshes around the bay retreated each year over the course of the study, according to findings published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing… Read more