Friday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold reinstatement of a 967-square-mile lobster fishing closure is another devastating blow to Maine lobstermen.

Lobster fishermen were forced to remove their gear from a large section of the Gulf of Maine this week, but while their traps may no longer be in the water, the industry is not giving up its fight.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation is fighting to save what’s left of its land as climate change prompts sea levels to rise and eat away the shoreline in Long Island, New York. European settlers, and later the U.S. government, for centuries have forcefully relocated Indigenous tribes onto marginal lands more vulnerable to climate hazards. “This is the only place we have to remain. This is our homeland,” said Shavonne Smith, director of the tribe’s environmental department.

The operator of ferry service to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island is eyeing a move to an historic Battery Park pier from its existing home that’s falling apart.

The pricetag for combatting sea-level rise on Nantucket over the next 15 years? $900 million, members of the Coastal Resilience Advisory Committee told the Select Board Wednesday night during a presentation of the town’s recently-completed coastal resiliency plan.

Tucked away in the New Bedford Whaling Museum is a room full of records. It holds manuscripts, manifests, banking records and crew accounts from New England’s storied whaling industry.

ELLSWORTH — A grizzled lobsterman hauls traps onto the wharf as the sun sets slow and pink over the harbor. Fishing boats head home to unload catch as captains and sternmen young and old call back and forth in a Downeast Maine accent. Fresh-caught local seafood is featured at restaurants and markets.

For the past eight years, the Highlands-based American Littoral Society and partner Stockton University, along with concerned community members, have been quietly bringing to life a living shoreline project on Barnegat Bay. When completed, according to the society’s Executive Director Tim Dillingham, it will be “the biggest of its kind going on in New Jersey, so far.”

The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved the construction and operations of the South Fork Wind project offshore Rhode Island, marking the second approval of a commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project in the United States.

BUSINESS Posted 4:00 AM Updated at 11:17 AMINCREASE FONT SIZEResize Font Maine’s working waterfronts facing a tidal wave of threats, Island Institute report finds The new report cites a lack of infrastructure, support, access, affordable housing and legal protections, as well as increasing risks from climate change.

The new report cites a lack of infrastructure, support, access, affordable housing and legal protections, as well as increasing risks from climate change.

Freeport – along with nine other coastal towns and cities in Maine – will use the funds to locally develop strategies aimed at preventing floods caused by rising sea levels.

Arguing that all people should have access to public beaches regardless of physical ability, advocates and public officials on Tuesday called for improvements and upgrades so people with disabilities can easily enjoy seaside offerings in Massachusetts.

PORTLAND, Maine — Right now, lobstermen are hauling their gear out of a 967-square mile stretch of ocean, roughly 30 miles offshore, in the Gulf of Maine.

A New York City project seeks to improve the post-flood financial resiliency of low-income households with parametric insurance programs so disaster victims are paid quickly and can spend money where it’s needed most.

A project to improve the ability of low- and moderate-income households to recover after a flood through innovative insurance pilots and capacity building within the city, and civic partners to harness risk-transfer markets for social goals.

With migration season beginning for a critically endangered species of whale, the federal government is establishing a voluntary protected zone southeast of New York City to protect the animals from sea vessels as they head for warmer waters.

With migration season beginning for a critically endangered species of whale, the federal government is establishing a voluntary protected zone southeast of New York City to protect the animals from sea vessels as they head for warmer waters.

Cynthia Dittbrenner, director of coast and natural resources at The Trustees of Reservations, will discuss sea level rise and its potential impact on Long Beach when the Long Beach Options Committee meets Wednesday afternoon.

With the Fire Island to Montauk Point Project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be restarted in 2023 — what Kevin McAllister, president of Defend H20, describes as dumping sand along the 83 miles of the Suffolk County oceanfront — it would be instructive to consider the situation in another region.

Atlantic City is in the process of updating its master plan. A change in state law enacted as a draft document was nearing completion has delayed presenting a draft of the plan to the public. That is now expected in early 2022.

A coalition of activists, scientists and land defenders are celebrating in Nova Scotia this week, following the cancellation of a proposal that could have seen a piece of biodiverse coastal parkland ground to sand.

It is a fairly common practice in the nuclear industry, known as "overboarding," to release water, including radioactive water, into the ocean from nuclear power plants.

Ten Maine communities on Casco Bay are banding together to develop defenses against coastal flooding caused by climate change.

Concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the deep waters of the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary (LSLE) have dropped by over 50% over the past two years. The consequences for many marine species, who depend on oxygen to survive, are potentially very serious.