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Restoring world’s coasts must happen at the speed of need
North Carolina Coastal Federation staff who recently visited Australia left with a clear takeaway: Restoration technology and expertise here at home must be put to work at a much larger scale, ambitiously and expediently.

Forecasters expect strong winds, coastal flooding this week
Parts of eastern North Carolina started to feel the effects Wednesday of a large and slow-moving coastal low likely to bring rain, strong winds, coastal flooding and hazardous beach conditions through the weekend.

National Estuaries Week celebrates vital coastal ecosystems
This week is National Estuaries Week, a campaign to increase public awareness of estuaries and to encourage people to become involved in the protection of these important natural resources.

NOAA gets $64 million to build new lab; former staff ‘elated’
Dr. Bud Cross, a longtime director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's historic Beaufort Laboratory, says the recent announcement the a new facility would soon be built on Pivers Island came as "great news to all of us who have worked there.”

When is the best time to go fishing? Soon, old sport, soon
It's no illusion, fall fishing is the absolute best time to be on the water, and "life starts all over again," as Fitzgerald noted, but there may be a little magic involved.

EPA, Army propose alternative draft definitions for ‘WOTUS’
The comment period ends Oct. 9 on proposed alternative definitions that environmental groups say will strip protections from seasonal wetlands and waterways.

Pest or purpose, tiny ants play outsized roles in our world
It's easy to despise fire ants on your foot or sugar ants in your pantry, but give the little buggers some grace, because this place would really be a mess without them.

Pro surfers ride ubiquitous symbol of ocean pollution in film
“The Cigarette Surfboard,” a film about surfing activists and tobacco-related pollution around the world, will make its online premiere Tuesday through Sept. 27, and is timed to include International Coastal Cleanup Day, Sept. 19.

What Granny Jean’s pantry can teach Capitol Hill about reuse
Our grandparents' tradition of reuse has been replaced by today's throwaway economy built around single-use plastic, which doesn't vanish, and we need to nationally implement systems that last.

Fly-fisher, conservationist, Marshall Cutchin: ‘Notice things’
His influence on fishing and how we use information technology as a learning tool cannot be overstated, but, he'll tell you, it’s the ability to see things that counts.

Cooler weather foreshadows welcome fall
A squall line moves quickly across the Newport River toward Bogue Banks and Onslow Bay in Carteret County Saturday afternoon, when the National Weather Service says the high in the Newport-Morehead City area reached 93. Temperatures Sunday and Monday were cooler, in the mid- to…

DMF releases annual review of state-managed coastal species
DMF's 2025 Fishery Management Plan Review offers a quick guide of scientific and management information for managed coastal species in the state.