On New Year’s Day 1802, President Thomas Jefferson, just 10 months in office, received a grand gift of support from the town of Cheshire, Mass. It was a cheese that weighed 1,235 pounds. Stories of its 13-foot circumference and how it was rolled across the White House lawn to Jefferson’s waiting arms has caused some […]
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Suzanne Simon, a strategic programs manager at the national organization Restore America’s Estuaries, or RAE, said it began with a “magic wand question.” If given unlimited resources, she asked, how can we help promote the use of living shorelines? A few years ago, Simon began posing the question to leaders in the restoration and management […]
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A group of business leaders representing interests up and down the East Coast, including chambers of commerce, restaurant associations, commercial fishing groups and real estate organizations, are urging President Obama to use a provision of federal law to try and permanently block seismic surveying for oil and natural gas off the Atlantic coast. Tom Kies, […]
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By LORI WYNN Coastal Review Online Read the research team’s report Galapagos National Park (This article is provided by Coastal Review Online, an online news service covering North Carolina’s coast. For more news, features, and information about the coast, go to www.coastalreview.org.)
Old-timers who grew up on the North Carolina coast may still recall seeing the night sky lit up by offshore battles during World War II. Now, researchers are using advanced technology to more fully explore the recently discovered wreckage from one such battle that happened just off Cape Hatteras back in 1942. The National Oceanic […]
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Many coastal property owners should save money if newly proposed federal flood insurance maps are adopted, but some officials fear that the maps’ changes might lead to complacency. “They’re just maps, and people need to realize that lines on paper don’t mean there won’t be floods,” said Donna Creef, director of the planning department in […]
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Oysters have been getting a lot of press lately,” Greg “Rudi” Rudolph, Carteret County’s shore protection officer, said during the N.C. Beach, Inlet and Waterway Association’s recent two-day meeting of at the N.C. Aquarium. The trend will continue, if a number of shellfish advocates have their way. Oyster evangelists are spreading the word about how […]
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This week may provide a glimpse into the future, a look at what our coast could be as sea level continues to inch up because of climate change. All the planets will line up just right to produce “king tides,” the catchy moniker for highest tides of the year. They occur each fall and spring. […]
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Nobody goes to Atlantic Beach to look for the Bogue Banks Lighthouse, but a few go to Washington, D.C., to do so. That’s where they find it. It’s not that the lighthouse has been moved. It did exist, for seven years in the 1800s near the eastern end of the long, narrow sand spit off mainland […]
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State health officials, worried about having resources to fight a potential outbreak of the Zika virus in North Carolina, were heartened this month when President Barack Obama asked Congress for $1.8 billion to combat the spread of the potentially debilitating disease. Budget cuts have left state and local health departments understaffed and, officials say, in […]
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