The population of young lobsters has declined nearly 40% in some of the most critical fishing waters off New England, officials said Wednesday, triggering new restrictions for the fishermen who harvest the valuable crustaceans.

After weeks of uncertainty and likely project cancellations due to the effect of inflation on earlier contracts, New York State has reaffirmed its commitment to offshore wind with the largest state-level investment in renewable energy in US history

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Federal dollars will help move forward a resiliency project meant to protect a South Shore neighborhood, the Advance/SILive.com learned this week.

Severe erosion on Nantucket’s south shore led to the demolition Thursday morning of a beach house that had been condemned by the town over the summer.

Almost 200 kilometers off the coast of Nova Scotia sits a slender, crescent-shaped spit of land known for mythic wild horses that roam its dunes, seals that dot its low-slung shores and hundreds of shipwrecks still populating its watery depths.

Officials say surveys have detected that the population of young lobsters has declined nearly 40% in some of the most critical fishing waters off New England

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is rolling out designated offshore wind leasing areas off the lower 48 states at a rapid clip, racing to meet the Biden administration's target of 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2030. For the latest - a 3.5 million acre parcel in the Gulf of Maine - it has decided to dodge a looming fight with fishing and environmental interests.

Beach season may have ended, but conflicts over shoreline access have not. ecoRI News reporters Colleen Cronin and Rob Smith break down pending and settled lawsuits, and explain recent legislation that determines where the public beach begins and where private property ends.

Judge Indira Talwani of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has rejected another challenge to federal permits and approvals for the Vineyard Wind Project (Vineyard Wind or the Project). Vineyard Wind is under construction off the coast of Massachusetts and will be the first modern utility-scale offshore wind energy project in the United States.

Cape May County filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against multiple federal agencies and their leaders, alleging that federal regulators have abandoned their obligation to protect the environment and Atlantic coastal marine life in favor of an “inappropriate collusion” with the developer of a proposed offshore wind energy farm.

Calling it a blame game might be an understatement.

Rhode Island is moving forward with the state’s largest renewable energy solicitation after announcing it would form a three-state partnership with Connecticut and Massachusetts to review and coordinate a regional approach to offshore renewable energy.

The years long back-and-forth involving North Wildwood, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, millions of cubic yards of sand and an ever-eroding beach may one day come to a close. But that day is not today.

The first of Vineyard Wind's 62 turbines has been assembled in the waters southwest of Nantucket.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is stepping up enforcement of vessel speed limits when endangered North Atlantic right whales are on the move. The agency has used satellite technology and even highway patrol-style speed radar to nab violators.

TOMS RIVER - Tropical Storm Ophelia damaged the oceanfront dune system in Ortley Beach, leading to four-foot drops to the beach in some spots, according to a coastal erosion assessment prepared by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

20 years after Truro opens a valve, sea creatures continue a comeback

There’s a lot happening in the offshore wind world right now, especially in the Northeast. And depending on what articles you read, the industry is booming or teetering on financial failure.

Opponents of law expanding public beach access lack standing to sue

Revitalizing oyster farms and wild oyster reefs could undo decades of environmental destruction on our coasts

100-year floods are supposed to happen — well, once every 100 years. That’s no longer the case.

The bayside town that became the poster child for some of the most severe devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 is making progress on a $395 million federal project that’s been in the works even longer than that.

WAKEFIELD, R.I. — Shoreline access made big waves earlier this year when lawmakers widened the public access corridor allowable under state law, but the bill only tackled part of the issue of getting to the beach.

The legislation offers a roadmap for working with, rather than against, Mother Nature when it comes to protecting the NY coastline.

UNION BEACH, N.J. -- There's a race against time and rising sea levels in Union Beach, New Jersey. Typically, water wins.