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More than a dozen commercial and recreational fishers worked together over the past year to remove 1 million pounds of marine debris created by past hurricanes from the central and southeast coasts. The North Carolina Coastal Federation, which is heading up the effort in partnership with the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, received nearly… Read More
EMERALD ISLE — Carteret County’s June occupancy tax numbers are in, and they shattered the collection record for the month by more than $600,000. Revenue from the 6% tax on rental accommodations totaled $2,186,741, up 38% over the June 2020 total of $1,582,344. In his monthly report for the Carteret County Beach Commission meeting set… Read More
WELLFLEET — Penelope Jencks remembers the conversations her parents and their friends had in the years leading up to the creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961. Her parents had owned property in Wellfleet since 1939. They built a house there. When they found out the federal government wanted to establish a national park on the Outer Cape and take private property by eminent domain, her… Read More
CEDAR RAPIDS — Dale Todd called it. Decades ago, the now-Cedar Rapids City Council member summed up a vision to turn Cedar Lake — an urban lake long seen as an eyesore and plagued by environmental problems — into a game-changing community asset. “This derelict site can be transformed into a recreational mecca for skateboarders,… Read More
AP Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s biggest container shipping line, was expected to make around $4.5 billion in operating profit in 2021, according to estimates at the start of the year by the financial analysts who follow the company. Their estimates have turned out to be totally wrong. Due to surging freight rates stemming from global… Read More
Hawaii wants cleaner energy to fight climate change. The military wants renewable energy for fighting China. The military and civilian researchers in Hawaii have stepped up efforts to harness the powerful waves and ocean currents off Oahu as a source of renewable energy. The Navy recently gave an infusion of $6 million to continue research into the… Read More
Study says project could cost $3.18 million TIERRA VERDE, Fla. — Residents of a Pinellas County community say they shouldn’t have to foot the entire multi-million dollar bill to keep their canal from drying up, so ABC Action News wanted to find out what’s behind the water worries along a popular boating waterway. The I-Team… Read More
The City of San Luis Obispo is beginning work next week to restore Laguna Lake after years of sediment buildup has impacted the water quality and the lake’s recreational usage. As a part of the Laguna Lake Natural Reserve Conservation Plan, the city will start a two-week project in mid-September to dredge the lake. Bob… Read More
Environmentally concerned citizens will file a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Wednesday in opposition to a proposed offshore wind energy farm. The lawsuit aims to stop the industrialization of Massachusetts’ coastal ecosystem that would result from the construction of over 2,000 offshore wind turbines off of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, they announced in… Read More
Forecasts for offshore wind installation on the East Coast of the United States point to an immediate need for investment in standardized safety and technical training, says the Global Wind Organisation (GWO), the industry-owned non-profit responsible for wind technician training standards. GWO has forecast that over 25,000 people will require basic entry-level standard training to… Read More
Profiling exemplary coastal journalism on the NJ coast. In this episode, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk to Andrew S. Lewis about his recent essay in New York Times Magazine, “The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore.” Supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines reporting initiative and complete with stunning photography by… Read More
NOTICE TO MARINERS CANAL SYSTEM UPDATE August 24, 2021 The New York State Canal Corporation today announced the following update on weather related closures along the Canal system. Due to continued high water levels and high flows from recent heavy rainfall, specifically in the Finger Lakes and Central New York region, many sections will remain… Read More
Increased sea-level rise — even at levels less than a foot — will reconfigure Gateway National Recreation Area Sandy Hook’s delicate fresh-groundwater system, which sustains one of the last two old-growth American Holly maritime forests in the country, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The study, recently released, modeled different scenarios. Researchers… Read More
LAKE MITCHELL, S.D. (KELO) — Efforts are underway to clean up a once popular lake. For much of the summer Lake Mitchell is closed to swimmers, algae blooms create high levels of toxins. But the city has a plan to clean up the lake and restore it to its former glory days. Lake Mitchell is… Read More
This update on the work at the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, which first started shining 145 years ago, was provided by the nonprofit Outer Banks Conservationists on Aug. 20. ICC-Commonwealth, which handles the restoration and preservation of historic structures, has returned to the Currituck Beach Lighthouse to complete long-awaited work that like so many other things,… Read More