Waterways

It’s good to be No. 1. That’s the spot held for more than two decades by the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, a combined international trade powerhouse that moves nearly 40% of the products imported from Asia to U.S. stores and factories.

In some areas, like the Indian River Lagoon, "well over half" of the seagrass had died off over the last 50 years.

Climate and public health campaign Ship it Zero says the results of its inaugural Shipping Decarbonisation Report Card put ‘retailers and carrier lines on notice to clean up their shipping problem.’

Searching for sunken treasure? Long Island Sound is hardly the place to look. But what can be found in its murky waters are ample remains of Connecticut’s once prominent shipping industry, and perhaps evidence of early Native American villages from around 20,000 years ago when the Sound was a glacial lake.

Federal transportation dollars are pouring into the Alaska Marine Highway System. It’s saving the state money now. But Alaska’s ferry board is looking far into the future and helping to draft a 20-year plan. It includes three new ferries in the next four years.

While the news from earlier this week that a buoy near the Florida Keys recorded a water temperature of 101.1 degrees is alarming, it's not unprecedented.

One of the smelliest summers in history has stark implications for our present climate breakdown, experts say

The state of California has awarded $1.5 billion in grants to ports and supply chain projects throughout the state.

From recurring harmful algal blooms – including brown tides – to catastrophic seagrass losses, fish kills and unusual marine mammal deaths – including the threatened Florida manatee – the Indian River Lagoon is environmentally distressed.

ST. LOUIS — In an effort to breathe life back into the Gulf of Mexico’s "dead zone," where a lack of oxygen kills or drives away most sea creatures, Missouri is requiring major wastewater treatment facilities to significantly limit the amount of phosphorus reaching waterways.

A 2021 analysis showed the Port of Mobile contributes $85 billion to the state’s economy.

Removing the Copco 2 Dam takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January.

Questions remain after Supreme Court ruling against EPA in May

JULY 17, 2023 — On July 12, 2023, a $5.38 million settlement was proposed(link is external) in Federal District Court to restore natural resources impacted by contaminants discharged along the Gloucester, Massachusetts waterfront.

Cooler temperatures account for increased acreage in lower Bay

Four days after a deadly fire killed two veteran firefighters and injured five others officials reopened the channel to traffic at Port Newark, one of the nation’s largest ports, U.S. Coast Guard officials announced.