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A Close Encounter With a Humpback Whale
Chris Hill on his paddleboard approaches a humpback whale off Surf City. Photo: Steve Young By Frank Tursi SURF CITY – Chris Hill surfs on a paddleboard. In fact, he does it professionally. That...
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Poll: N.C. Voters Say Don’t Trash Environment
Do you personally believe economic development is more important, equally as important, or less important than environmental protection? More Important 27% Equally as Important 59% Less Important...
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Are Wood Pellets Really Green?
First of four parts The quiet piney woods of the N.C. coast are a long way from the bustle of Berlin, London and Amsterdam, but those trees may soon be lighting up those far-off foreign capitals thanks...
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Wow! This Is a Beautiful Place
Jim Snyders of Ohio won first prize in the federation photo contest with this serene scene of a glorious fall sunset over Boathouse Creek in Carteret County. By Frank Tursi Debby Gleeson won second...
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Can the Coast Still Be Protected?
North Carolina’s coastal-management program risks losing millions of dollars in federal money each year and the ability to affect the outcome of federal permits if a bill that changes the composition...
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Lawmakers Warned About Commissions Bill
RALEIGH — North Carolina’s environmental agency has warned legislators that they are putting the state’s federally approved coastal-management program in jeopardy if a bill that remakes the coastal...
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Trip to Rich Inlet Shows What’s at Stake
The shallow water and shifting sand bars of Rich Inlet provide habitat for animals and are a playground for people. Both would be threatened if Figure Eight Island, on the right, were to build a...
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Wood Pellet Plan May Hinge on Faraway Policies
The storage dome and other infrastructure for the wood pellets would be built in the lower right corner of the port. MOREHEAD CITY – They had a public meeting here Wednesday about the state’s plans to...
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Fumigation Plan Raises a Stink
MOREHEAD CITY – The state agency that regulates air pollution will hold a public hearing on a controversial proposal to use a highly toxic gas to fumigate logs at the state port here. “The Division of...
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State Declines $600K in Federal Grants
RALEIGH – Saying they don’t need the money to meet their new mission, state environmental officials recently turned down almost $600,000 in federal grants. The money would have been used to set up a...
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State Will Reduce Monitoring Program
MOREHEAD CITY – The state next year will eliminate 41 sites along coastal rivers and sounds from its program that monitors water quality for swimming because of cuts in a federal grant. The N.C....
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The Top 10 Stories of 2013
As one year ends and another begins, it’s time to step back and take stock. At Coastal Review Online that means reviewing what I think were the top stories of the more than 240 that appeared here in...
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Dredging Plan Ignites New Sand Skirmish
Comment on Plan A public meeting on the Army Corps of Engineer’s “Draft Integrated Dredged Material Management Plan” and the accompanying environmental impact statement will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today...
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Saving a Piece of the NE Cape Fear River
The 2,300-acre Owens’ easement is the latest parcel along the Northeast Cape Fear River that has been preserved by the N.C. Coastal Land Trust. Source: N.C. Coastal Land Trust WILMINGTON – Two...
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Knotts Island: Preserving a Piece of History
Knotts Island is really a peninsula that hangs from Virginia, top of photo, and separates North Landing River, bottom, from Back Bay. Most of the residents live on the east side of the peninsula....
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Duck Dynasty: When Waterfowl Ruled the Roost
Last of two parts Bill Holman, left, and Ric Taylor stand in front of the old barn at Flyway Farms. Photo: Frank Tursi KNOTTS ISLAND – Ric Taylor came from Connecticut five years ago to look after the...
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Venerable Lab Under Budget Axe
The lab soon after it opened on Pivers Island in 1902. Inside the ground floor of the lab in 1902. Photos: U.S. Fish Commission. BEAUFORT – The second-oldest federal fisheries laboratory in the...
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Saving a Piece of Down East Carteret
No one really how many clams Elmer Willis shipped out of this now ramshackle building in Williston, but it was an economic force and a proud symbol of the region known as Down East. Photo: Core Sound...
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Climate Crusader Makes Stop in N.C.
BEAUFORT – Sheldon Whitehouse came to North Carolina this week gathering more facts for his one-man crusade to persuade his colleagues in the U.S. Senate to finally awaken to the dangers of climate...
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Coastal Sketch: Orrin Pilkey
Orrin Pilkey spent his career advocating for beaches around the world. BEAUFORT — The new research building on the shores of Pivers Island at the Duke Marine Lab commands a stunning view of water. I...
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