Orrin Pilkey, ‘America’s most important coastal science communicator,’ has died at 90
The Duke University professor was a prolific and respected critic of plans to develop in environmentally fragile coastal ...
Mysterious tree stumps sprouting from Outer Banks beaches date to 1450s, study says
Nearly 30 stumps have emerged in the past two years and radiocarbon dating shows those on the Currituck Banks date to between ...
Teetering on the edge: How North Carolina communities are dealing with disappearing beaches
A slow-motion catastrophe is eating away North Carolina's beaches from the Outer Banks to Brunswick County. But solutions ...
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Buried Tree Stumps Show Shoreline Shifts of the Outer Banks
Storms are unburying centuries-old stumps on North Carolina’s barrier islands. Researchers hope these long-gone forests can ...
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Mysterious tree stumps sprouting from Outer Banks beaches date to 1450s, study says
Dave Krueger Dozens of still-rooted tree stumps uncovered by beach erosion have given scientists a window into what North Carolina’s Outer Banks looked like before the arrival of Europeans.
High surf advisory for Coastal Brunswick until Wednesday night – breaking waves of 5 to 8 feet foreseen
A high surf advisory was issued by the NWS Wilmington NC on Wednesday at 7:38 a.m. valid for Wednesday between 10 a.m. and 10 ...
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Teetering on the edge: How North Carolina communities are dealing with disappearing beaches
And while erosion has been a problem in North Topsail for a long time ... first federal nourishment project pumped sand onto Carolina Beach's eroded beach, mining offshore sand to rebuild battered ...
Restoration Advisory Board created to deal with Buxton Beach petroleum contamination
During a public meeting Nov. 4, in Buxton, NC, the Corps of Engineers made a survey with a 30-day submission deadline ...
Buxton community to have a say in beach restoration efforts
The Army Corps of Engineers will move forward with starting a restoration advisory board to focus on the Naval base at Buxton ...
What if Trump Doesn’t Need to Keep Any of His Promises?
Now, supposedly, Donald Trump must deliver. The easy promises of the campaign trail yield to the arduous chore of governing, ...
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More and more beachfront homes are collapsing, and there's no easy way to prevent it
The eventual fate of the tall home standing just off the beach on pilings ... Seashore and other national parks in Eastern North Carolina. Hallac had been thinking about that question a lot ...