• the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay?
• the Seal Slough tidal channel in California hosts a thriving marshland habitat despite encroachment by a sewage treatment plant and two schools?
• Balchug island opposite Moscow Kremlin takes its name from the Tatar word for "marsh"?
• 19th-century English architect John Foulston was responsible for the construction of Union Street across marshland?

Facts on topics related to Marsh

Plants

• molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants, and potentially also animals, as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value?
• the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants?
• the stink-bug Nezara viridula can feed on plants from over 30 families, but its preference for legumes, such as beans and soybeans, make it an economically important pest on crops?

Estuary

• South Beacon Mountain, the highest point in the Fishkill Creek (pictured) drainage basin, is located just above its estuary?
• oysters deposit pseudofeces in such amounts that they can clean up an entire estuary?
• the estuarine, burrow-dwelling ghost shrimp Neotrypaea californiensis is used as bait, but is sometimes attacked with insecticides because it damages Pacific oyster farms?
• there was once an estuarine valley with a rich abundance of New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931?