On a damp August evening at the beach in Emerald Isle, a lull between downpours brought a group of men, women and children to the base of a dune marked off with bright pink plastic strips tied to four wooden stakes. Three nights earlier, a sea turtle nest had hatched, sending a flood of baby […]
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On a damp August evening at the beach in Emerald Isle, a lull between downpours brought a group of men, women and children to the base of a dune marked off with bright pink plastic strips tied to four wooden stakes. Three nights earlier, a sea turtle nest had hatched, sending a flood of baby […]
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On a damp August evening at the beach in Emerald Isle, a lull between downpours brought a group of men, women and children to the base of a dune marked off with bright pink plastic strips tied to four wooden stakes. Three nights earlier, a sea turtle nest had hatched, sending a flood of baby […]
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The caravan of vehicles slowly snakes along, traveling five miles down a dusty gravel road to way down yonder in the woods. Pickup trucks, sports cars, SUVs, station wagons and a Tioga RV camper with three bicycles strapped to its bumper carry mostly Outer Banks vacationers on a twilight excursion to hear red wolves howl […]
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As Hurricane Irene moved up the East Coast just about a year ago, Joseph DiRenzo, the chief of operations analysis for the Coast Guard Atlantic Area, placed a phone call from his office in Portsmouth, Va., to Rick Luettich, director of the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. DiRenzo was worried about […]
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Living shorelines offer many benefits over the wooden and rock walls that are customarily used to control erosion along estuarine shores. But researchers say they have to be carefully planned and sited to make sure that “living shoreline” projects aren’t little more a bunch of rocks with a little grass thrown in. Rachel Gittman knows […]
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When the newly rewritten Coastal Management Policies Act and its controversial sea-level rise section was finally debated in the N.C. House Tuesday, there was little doubt that the issue still causes a rapid rise in temperatures. The final version of the bill, which passed the House 68-43 on the last day of the legislative session, […]
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With state legislators still wading through the issue of rising seas, a new federal report released yesterday seems to further muddy the water. Contrary to what we heard from some legislators the last few weeks, not only does the sea seem to be rising along the state’s northern coast, but it’s doing so at a […]
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To preserve what remains of the giant Atlantic sturgeon, the federal government will place the fish on the endangered species list starting Friday, Arpil 6. That leaves state officials waiting for the other shoe to drop. North Carolina, as did some of the other states affected by the listing, opposed federal protection, though the sturgeon’s […]
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Most people in North Carolina have never seen an Atlantic sturgeon. Once common along our coast, the fish became so rare that to preserve the remaining population the state more than 20 years ago made it illegal to possess a sturgeon. Starting Friday, April 6, though, the full weight of the U.S. government will get […]
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