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Democrats and counties oppose the idea. Properties that have been flood-damaged multiple times account for nearly half the program’s payouts over the years.
The decline in oyster numbers in the James River’s Wreck Shoals sanctuary off Newport News was so sharp last fall — and so out of step with the rest of the bay — that Virginia Marine Resources Commission staff went back for a second look.
We know less about the ocean floor than we do about the surface of the moon and Mars. But by the end of the decade we may know the general outline of our undersea contours and crevasses, thanks to an international project called Seabed 2030. The mapping initiative — formally known as The Nippon Foundation-General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans Seabed 2030 Project — launched in 2017 to “produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030.”
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH — Sand is running out along the shores of Wrightsville Beach. A risky offshore-dredging plan seems to be the only path forward.
Newfoundland and Labrador is known as much for its hospitality as its scenery.
The essence of the idea is simple: pump ocean water into the Indian River Lagoon and create new inlets that would then let the water circulate back to sea, diluting or removing the excess nutrients that are killing the estuary.
About an hour off the coast of Maine lie some of the state’s most unique environments: tiny sea islands that are often little more than piles of rocks with shrubs growing in the middle. They’re largely uninhabited, save for colonies of nesting seabirds. Yet even these remote patches of wild are not immune to the pervasive hand of human influence.
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