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New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that keeps them viable. This research, published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, has wide-ranging implications for managing New England’s coastline… Read More
Looking to attract federal money, Louisiana will partner with two other states — Arkansas and Oklahoma — to form a regional hub in developing “clean hydrogen,” the Governor’s Office announced Thursday. The move comes after the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law dedicated $9.5 billion toward ramping up the use of hydrogen as fuel to cut carbon emissions… Read More
Housed in a sleek new building just over the levee near downtown Baton Rouge is a scale model of the lower Mississippi River Delta. Researchers use it to study how sediment moves through the river. State officials, environmental groups, and lawmakers use it to advocate for coastal restoration projects. As land along Louisiana’s coastline continues… Read More
Pensacola, Fla. – (OBA) – When Hurricane Sally made landfall in Orange Beach, Ala. in the early morning hours on September 16, 2020 it was one of the slowest moving storm in recent history. The slow moving category 2 storm caused more destruction than some category 3 storms. Hurricane Sally displaced a lot of sand… Read More
A significant amount of sand dredged from Cow Creek has been placed back into Lake Huron. Sarnia Construction Manager Robert Williams said it was placed onto the ice at the end of February. “That gave us real estate to do some additional dredging,” said Williams. “We’ve taken a total of about 5,000 cubic metres of… Read More
Even though the federal government gave San Diego $300 million to alleviate the decades-long problem of Tijuana sewage spilling over the U.S.-Mexico border, and even though everyone seems to generally agree it should be spent on a bigger border wastewater treatment plant, and even though all the necessary parties seem to be working harmoniously on… Read More
Summary translation of video of Watermaster in action on the island of Martinique. “Sargassum: It looks like mud, yet it is decomposing sargassum that is being removed by the mechanical arm on the Watermaster. Local authorities in Martinique spearheaded the drive for the removal of the Sargassum, as it causes damage to biodiversity. In just… Read More
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Army Corps of Engineers has completed maintenance dredging near the mouth of the Savannah River and recovered more centuries-old cannons. That brings the total to 19. Several were brought up from the river bottom in recent investigations, but others were missed by remote sensing and divers because of sediment. The… Read More
This is the first in a special reporting series on federal infrastructure spending and North Carolina’s navigation needs. Millions in supplemental funds from the federal infrastructure bill signed into law last November will be spent unclogging shoaled hot spots in a handful of North Carolina’s shallow-draft inlets, giving a reprieve to the local beach towns… Read More
A 334-meter containership owned by Evergreen Marine is aground in Chesapeake Bay not far from the Port of Baltimore on the U.S. East Coast. A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard’s 5th District confirmed that the M/V Ever Forward grounded Sunday night as she departed with one pilot on board. Automatic identification system (AIS) ship tracking… Read More
ZeroNorth AS, the software spin-off from Maersk Tankers in which agribusiness giant Cargill is an investor, says that last year its platform prevented 218,000 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere by ships. To calculate the emissions savings, ZeroNorth examined vessels whose voyages were optimized using its software. It says that the results… Read More
WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2022 (ENS) – In a bipartisan vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that will fund government climate, energy, water and wildfire activities, and provide $13.6 billion in new aid for Ukraine, sending the $1.5 trillion bill to President Joe Biden’s desk for signature. President Biden on Friday signed… Read More
Coastal areas are home to major cities around the globe, as well roughly 40% of the world’s population.1 Rising sea levels and coastal flooding around the world due to climate change threaten these areas. While all coastal areas are subject to storms and natural events causing erosion, these factors tend to become greater as sea… Read More
Shipbuilders in the port city of Brownsville, Texas, are nearing the halfway mark on shaping 14,000 tons of steel into a vessel designed to ensure the country’s gamble on offshore wind is less dicey. Meanwhile, 1,676 miles east in Virginia, executives with Richmond-based Dominion Energy who ordered the ship have their fingers crossed. They are… Read More
WASHINGTON – Long before climate change seized the global conscience, when the environment struggled for political traction, North America’s Great Lakes were a dumping ground — a toxic monument to industrial excess on either side of the Canada-U.S. border. More than three decades later, North America’s single largest source of freshwater is back in the… Read More