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Jan 10, 2025 · “Accelerating sea level rise (SLR) and changing storm patterns will increasingly expose barrier islands to coastal hazards, including flooding, erosion, and rising groundwater tables,” according to the study titled, “The projected exposure and response of a natural barrier island system to climate-driven coastal hazards,” published in Nature scientific reports.

Jan 9, 2025 · Marks has declined to reveal the price tag of the land. He said in an interview last year that the organization expected to spend about $8 million on various expenses, surveys and title searches, and the land itself.

Jan 14, 2025 · Kevin Hardy of Wilmar, near Vanceboro, fishes along Cape Lookout National Seashore as a commercial fishing trawler offshore heads southwest. Photo: Dylan Ray

Dec 6, 2024 · The proposed Hilton Bluffs development site plan map golf course and single-family homes, shown as points P and N, respectively, and horse ranch with river overlook and cabins, marked J and K, respectively, are shown with a 100-year floodplain overlay provided by Dr. Roger Shew, who said the Wilmington area had seen at least six 100- to 500-vear floods since 1999.

Jan 7, 2025 · President Joe Biden has permanently closed off much of the nation’s coasts from prospective offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. The move, announced Monday as Biden wraps up his presidency, includes more than 330 million acres of the Atlantic outer continental shelf, from Canada to the southern tip of Florida, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as the West Coast, and the remainder ...

Dec 31, 2024 · The students presented their findings “The Sound of Change: Responses to Controlled Burning and Other Changes in the Currituck Sound,” Dec. 12 as part of the monthly Science on the Sound lecture series at the Coastal Studies Institute, or CSI, on East Carolina University’s Outer Banks Campus.. The students conducted the research project as part of the Outer Banks Field Site, or OBXFS, a ...

Dec 16, 2024 · Coastal Resources Commission legal counsel Mary Lucasse, speaking during a recent legal symposium in New Bern, said the Coastal Area Management Act balances development and private property rights with protecting natural resources.

Jan 9, 2025 · An egret hunts along the shore of an icy marsh Thursday near Pelletier Creek in Morehead City. Don't look for a quick thaw as much of coastal North Carolina is under a winter weather advisory from 4 p.m. Friday until 10 a.m. Saturday. The forecast calls for the potential for light accumulations of ice and snow, although little to none is expected from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke Island.

Jan 31, 2025 · Support the coastal news you value. CoastalReview.org is an award-winning, nonprofit news service providing unbiased, in-depth and investigative reporting about issues on the North Carolina coast. Your support makes our work possible. Please join the Coastal Review Press Club or put your business in the Sponsor Spotlight to support the coverage your care about.