An effort to protect threatened wading bird colonies and their imperiled habitat on Battery and Shellbed islands, Audubon, Sandbar Oyster Co. and the North Carolina Coastal Federation have teamed up ...

The North Carolina General Assembly established the new rules through a 2023 law and charged the Division of Marine Fisheries ...

In its largest giveaway to date, Cape Fear Alliance for Trees will have more than 1,400 native trees available for the taking beginning Friday afternoon.

The state Secretaries' Science Advisory Board, which assists and makes recommendations to the N.C. departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services regarding contaminants, is ...

A “mosser” with a load of seaweed bound for the agar factory that operated in Beaufort during World War II. Photo courtesy, State Archives of North Carolina Editor’s note: Coastal Review regularly ...

Former state Supreme Court Justice Willis Whichard, one of four individuals widely credited for securing passage of the state ...

The company's annual payments to the county over the project’s 30-year lifespan are expected to total $50 million, and the ...

Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers officials said Monday that proposed changes to the existing ...

The draft program proposes up to 34 potential offshore lease sales across 21 of 27 existing outer continental shelf planning ...

The North Carolina Sedimentation Control Commission during its meeting Thursday is to consider continuing to give N.C. Department of Transpiration authority to review and approve erosion and ...

The Coastal Resources Commission during its regular meeting last week voted on proposed language that changes the "Description" of Jockey's Ridge to the "Designation" in an attempt to satisfy the most ...

Invasive species pose a serious challenge for ecosystems that have not evolved alongside them, and such is the case with North Carolina's crystal skipper and the nonnative horses allowed to roam the ...