Several projects by the Division of Marine Fisheries’ Artificial Reef Program to build up North Carolina’s existing, offshore artificial reefs were recently completed.

ENGELHARD, NC — Earl Pugh's house looks out over some of the machinery, sheds and fields of Middle Creek Farms, where the retired farmer's son now manages the cultivation of crops from the family's productive soil.

Across the country, environmental justice has become a buzzword deployed in goals, aspirations and administration actions.

Virginia is proposing tighter regulations on the crab harvest after a survey showed the population of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay is the lowest in the survey’s 33-year history.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Port of Virginia have signed the agreement committing the federal government to begin its financial investment in the construction effort to widen and deepen the commercial shipping channels and Norfolk Harbor.

Whenever Washington, D.C. area expects severe storms with heavy rain and damaging winds, you can also expect some flooding -- but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) along with other partners, is working on ways to reduce storm damage.

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct an environmental review of US Wind’s offshore wind project in Maryland, the first proposed wind energy project offshore the state’s coast and the tenth offshore wind review of this kind initiated under the Biden-Harris administration.

Researchers say conserving coastal land where marshes can migrate is a ‘decisive factor’ in offsetting losses

One of the more unique aspects of living on a barrier island is that your hometown tends to make the international news on a semi-regular basis.

Fourteen miles off the coast of New York, vast fields of offshore wind turbines will soon be installed in the Atlantic Ocean. Spurred by a recent $4.37 billion federal auction of more than 488,000 acres of offshore leases in the New York Bight, these wind farms will help New York realize its 2019 mandate to generate 70% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

Nothing drives hurricane experts crazier than the sentiment, "Oh, it's just a Category 1."

With forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (a division of the National Weather Service) predicting above-average hurricane activity this year, a paper published in the peer review magazine Oceanography shows that robotic ocean observing platforms can improve intensity forecasts for hurricanes and tropical storms.

Clinic’s Caseload Includes Supreme Court Brief and Other Environmental Justice Cases. Professor Cale Jaffe ’01 and his students at the University of Virginia School of Law have gone tilting at — actually, tilting for — windmills off the coast of Virginia Beach.

A Prince George couple has filed suit to force the town of Pawleys Island, its contractors and state agencies to restore the inlet at the island’s south end to the channel it followed before a beach renourishment project was completed in 2020.

SURF CITY — Surf City town leadership is hopeful its revamped beach nourishment project will be approved, following neighboring North Topsail Beach’s withdrawal last summer.

Last year was a banner year for farmed oyster production in North Carolina, with a 111% increase compared to the previous year.

Fairfax County is proposing long-term and short-term solutions to the harmful effects of climate change, and it wants feedback from residents.

Oyster farming in Delaware could bring major benefits to the beaches, but there are barriers holding it back.

A section of Kure Beach will remain closed over the Memorial Day weekend to the continue the beach renourishment program that began in Carolina Beach at the end of February.

From Lea-Hutaff Island to the south end of Wrightsville Beach, birds are returning to nest at our inlets and beaches. Brown pelicans are already patrolling the waves and marshes to feed their young. Black skimmers and least terns are raising chicks right on the sand, to the delight of beachgoers and vacationers.

This summer, a critical beach nourishment project will occur in Kill Devil Hills (KDH). In KDH, the project will only be taking place from the north town line south to Prospect Avenue – which is approximately 2.6 miles of our Town. The project is anticipated to last approximately 25-35 days.

The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina has partnered with NATRX, a sustainable infrastructure company, to deploy a 3-D printed artificial reef system to the Pamlico Sound.

As summer approaches, many North Carolinians are making plans to spend quality time at their favorite beaches, as well as the many lakes, rivers and streams across the state.

BEAUFORT — A N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission meeting will be held today and Thursday, May 25-26 in the Beaufort Hotel, 2440 Lennoxville Road.

Many Marylanders are getting ready to hit the beaches Memorial Day weekend, including the Delaware beaches - and Delaware officials say they're working hard to repair those coastlines after severe damage from a recent Nor'easter.