A recent report from the Buzzards Bay Coalition and other regional science groups has helped corroborate how much nitrogen and phosphorus cranberry bogs put into the environment and offered new
Buzzards Bay water quality has improved since 2015, according to the Buzzards Bay Coalition s quinquennial report on the bay s health, but the report cautions that changes driven by climate change,
Scientists studied twelve salt marsh sites on the South Coast and Upper Cape and found that tidal restrictions, nitrogen pollution, and, most impactfully, climate-change driven sea level rise are turning areas of marsh that were once vegetated to mud flats or open water.