News across Greater Morehead City
Coastal Review
Published October 01Commercial fishers ask NOAA to downlist Atlantic sturgeon
North Carolina fishermen want the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to reduce protections for endangered Atlantic sturgeon. Scientists say recovery isn’t so simple.
Coastal Review
Published September 28Preflight checklist includes sunning
A great blue heron positions its wings not for flight but to sunbathe Monday morning at the end of the Runway 26 at Michael J. Smith Field in Beaufort. According to the Audubon Society's Field Guide, the species thrives around "waters from subtropical mangrove swamps to desert…
Coastal Review
Published September 25Restoring 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.
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Published September 23Forecasters 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.
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Published September 23National 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.
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Published September 21NOAA 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.”
Coastal Review
Published September 18When 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.
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Published September 17EPA, 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.
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Published September 16Pest 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.
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Published September 15Pro 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.
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Published September 11What 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.
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Published September 10Fly-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.