A new population estimate for North Atlantic right whales found about 356 individuals left in 2022, which suggests the population trend is “flattening.”

In 2009 I started working on ocean planning with a group of dedicated ocean planning experts at the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and the Coastal Resources Center (CRC) at University of Rhode Island. I was representing local saltwater anglers and giving input regarding how we use coastal waters for fishing.

Officials say surveys have detected that the population of young lobsters has declined nearly 40% in some of the most critical fishing waters off New England

Almost 200 kilometers off the coast of Nova Scotia sits a slender, crescent-shaped spit of land known for mythic wild horses that roam its dunes, seals that dot its low-slung shores and hundreds of shipwrecks still populating its watery depths.

Severe erosion on Nantucket’s south shore led to the demolition Thursday morning of a beach house that had been condemned by the town over the summer.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Federal dollars will help move forward a resiliency project meant to protect a South Shore neighborhood, the Advance/SILive.com learned this week.

The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is rolling out designated offshore wind leasing areas off the lower 48 states at a rapid clip, racing to meet the Biden administration's target of 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2030. For the latest - a 3.5 million acre parcel in the Gulf of Maine - it has decided to dodge a looming fight with fishing and environmental interests.

Calling it a blame game might be an understatement.

Cape May County filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against multiple federal agencies and their leaders, alleging that federal regulators have abandoned their obligation to protect the environment and Atlantic coastal marine life in favor of an “inappropriate collusion” with the developer of a proposed offshore wind energy farm.

Judge Indira Talwani of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has rejected another challenge to federal permits and approvals for the Vineyard Wind Project (Vineyard Wind or the Project). Vineyard Wind is under construction off the coast of Massachusetts and will be the first modern utility-scale offshore wind energy project in the United States.

Beach season may have ended, but conflicts over shoreline access have not. ecoRI News reporters Colleen Cronin and Rob Smith break down pending and settled lawsuits, and explain recent legislation that determines where the public beach begins and where private property ends.

The years long back-and-forth involving North Wildwood, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, millions of cubic yards of sand and an ever-eroding beach may one day come to a close. But that day is not today.

Rhode Island is moving forward with the state’s largest renewable energy solicitation after announcing it would form a three-state partnership with Connecticut and Massachusetts to review and coordinate a regional approach to offshore renewable energy.

The first of Vineyard Wind's 62 turbines has been assembled in the waters southwest of Nantucket.

20 years after Truro opens a valve, sea creatures continue a comeback

TOMS RIVER - Tropical Storm Ophelia damaged the oceanfront dune system in Ortley Beach, leading to four-foot drops to the beach in some spots, according to a coastal erosion assessment prepared by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is stepping up enforcement of vessel speed limits when endangered North Atlantic right whales are on the move. The agency has used satellite technology and even highway patrol-style speed radar to nab violators.

100-year floods are supposed to happen — well, once every 100 years. That’s no longer the case.

Revitalizing oyster farms and wild oyster reefs could undo decades of environmental destruction on our coasts

Opponents of law expanding public beach access lack standing to sue

There’s a lot happening in the offshore wind world right now, especially in the Northeast. And depending on what articles you read, the industry is booming or teetering on financial failure.

Thou shalt not set foot on our sand! A Jersey Shore group that has been issued violations for banning people from the beach in Ocean Grove on Sunday mornings is suing to maintain the restriction, according to a report.

A Jersey Shore landowners association is asking a state judge to intervene and allow it to continue restricting beach access in Ocean Grove on Sunday mornings in a summer tradition tied to the community’s Christian roots.

UNION BEACH, N.J. -- There's a race against time and rising sea levels in Union Beach, New Jersey. Typically, water wins.

The legislation offers a roadmap for working with, rather than against, Mother Nature when it comes to protecting the NY coastline.