North Carolina Coastal Federation Executive Director Todd Miller is stepping down as North Carolina Division of Coastal Management Director Dr. Braxton Davis prepares to take the role Feb. 1.

BALD HEAD ISLAND — Bald Head Island is planning its next beach nourishment project, which requires a vote from the public and could include an impact on property tax rates.

The beach-building work takes place during late fall and winter to limit impacts to tourists, marine life, and nesting shorebirds and sea turtles.

Park staff discovered the nest of a green sea turtle this weekend at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the latest sea turtle nest ever recorded in North Carolina.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Beach renourishment is scheduled to begin in Wrightsville Beach next month.

TOPSAIL BEACH – After more than a year of emotionally charged meetings, negotiations and renegotiations, a Raleigh couple has pulled the plug on their plans to build a family compound on the southern tip of Topsail Island.

North Carolina is exhibiting a new form of climate change denial.

(The Center Square) – A recent state audit shows nearly $72 million in Hurricane Florence recovery money remains unspent, despite lingering unmet needs in counties hardest hit by the 2018 storm.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the above-normal 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on November 30, was characterised by record-warm Atlantic Sea surface temperatures and a strong El Nino.

The Upper Mattaponi Tribe’s historic reclamation of its ancestral lands along the Mattaponi River in Virginia not only preserves the tribe’s heritage but also ignites a visionary environmental stewardship, fostering harmony between tradition, culture, and ecological restoration.

Second in a three-part series on the challenges and goals of managing tourism on the Outer Banks. This installment examines the connection between tourism and the environmental stewardship of the area’s natural treasures.

This installment examines the connection between tourism and the environmental stewardship of the area’s natural treasures.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Interstate fishing regulators are limiting the harvest of a primordial species of invertebrate to try to help rebuild its population and aid a threatened species of bird.

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — Legendary oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau once said “we forget the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”

RODANTHE, N.C. — Demolition started on two homes in Rodanthe on Wednesday.

Spanish-German wind engineering company Siemens Gamesa has pulled the plug on its planned $200-million plant to finish offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing, citing inability to meet unspecified “development milestones.”

The latest National Climate Assessment shows the D.C. region is especially at risk of extreme weather, flooding, and sea level rise as the earth warms.

At the end of October, a Gervais’ Beaked Whale washed up on Emerald Isle. She was about a year old and weighed just over 670 pounds. Over a dozen scientists gathered together to figure out her cause of death.

TOPSAIL BEACH — A coastal Pender County town may have to pay more for this year’s dredging after survey work revealed many areas in the channel have more shallow depths than anticipated.

Living shoreline project at Franklin Point State Park aims to control erosion and promote marsh habitat

The writer is executive director of the Resilience Authority of Charles County.

RODANTHE, N.C. — Miles off the coast of the mainland of North Carolina, exposed to the fury and beauty of the Atlantic, the only constant for the Outer Banks is change.

Conservation grant funds were used buy the two homes to prevent another collapse and huge debris field along the national seashore. Could it be a model for other parts of the N.C. coast?

The James River Association (JRA) released their biennial State of the James report grading one of the Chesapeake Bay’s three largest rivers at a B. The 66% score is much improved from its failing health decades ago—Scientists estimate the James’s health in the 1970s would have been a D-minus.

Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project will power 900,000 homes, support thousands of jobs, and add 2,600 megawatts of clean energy to the grid