Coastal Review | News of the North Carolina Coast
A tiny Z-scale model train operated by Mike Basher of Basher and Sons Hobbies rounds the bend during an appearance earlier this month at the 30th annual John Costlow Train Show at the North Carolina Maritime Museum Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center in Beaufort.
NCDOT announced 2025 passenger, vehicle ferry schedule
Dec 3, 2024 · The Ocracoke Express is scheduled to carry passengers between Hatteras and Ocracoke Village May 13-Sept. 15. The vessel will make four round trips a day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday when ridership is highest.
Teams take to sky to survey North Atlantic right whales
Dec 9, 2024 · Black Heart is shown from above about 2 nautical miles east of High Hills, part of Cape Lookout National Seashore, by the North Carolina Early Warning System survey team from Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute.
Energy company secures financing for Chowan wind facility
Dec 10, 2024 · Apex Clean Energy, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, has secured construction funding for the 45-turbine wind facility currently being built in Chowan County.
Warming oceans intensified hurricanes’ strength: Studies
Nov 22, 2024 · The difference is a “tiny bit lower” than Gilford’s findings, “but very much in the same ballpark,” said Dr. Friederike “Fredi” Otto, a senior lecturer in climate science at Imperial College London and lead of World Weather Attribution, a team of researchers from several European-based institutions.. Otto said the companion study, “really shows that …
Winter Waterfowl Excursion to resume after 4-year pause
Dec 9, 2024 · North Carolina Maritime Museums officials are bringing back the overnight tour of wildlife refuges and seashores throughout Pamlico, Hyde and Dare counties to observe wintering waterfowl.. The Coastal Culture and Waterfowl Watching Excursion, a two-day adventure through the wildlife refuges and seashores in Eastern North Carolina, will be offered Jan. 8-9, 2025, and again Dec. 9-10, 2025 ...
Coastal Science Panel continues review of inlet areas
Nov 27, 2024 · Ten of North Carolina’s 19 active inlets are developed, including Tubbs, Shallotte and Lockwood Folly in Brunswick County; Carolina Beach, Masonboro, Mason and Rich in New Hanover County; New Topsail and New River in Pender County; and …
Waste discharge agreement moves toward becoming rule
Nov 19, 2024 · “The basic framework of that agreement was it established these end-of-pipe nitrogen and phosphorus caps for the association,” Huisman said. Adding that, “as long as the association remains under those group caps all the individual members are deemed compliant with their individual allocations.”
Inundation-prone Sledge Forest site set for development
Dec 6, 2024 · The proposed Hilton Bluffs development site plan map golf course and single-family homes, shown as points P and N, respectively, and horse ranch with river overlook and cabins, marked J and K, respectively, are shown with a 100-year floodplain overlay provided by Dr. Roger Shew, who said the Wilmington area had seen at least six 100- to 500-vear floods since 1999.
Storm thrashes NC coast: historic rainfall, crumpled roads
Sep 18, 2024 · The center of the low pressure was onshore near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, by the 5 p.m. Monday update and did not develop into a subtropical or tropical storm as forecasters had said was possible. As of 1:40 p.m. Tuesday, the remnants of the low were “well inland over” South Carolina, forecasters said. Several inches of rain associated with the low-pressure system dumped on coastal ...