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Briggs to lead Wildlife Resources Commission in 2025
2024年12月6日 · The state agency “dedicated to the conservation and wise management of fish and wildlife, and the regulation of inland fishing, hunting, trapping and boating regulations” will be under new leadership effective Jan. 1, 2025.
Warming oceans intensified hurricanes’ strength: Studies
2024年11月22日 · 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 …
Maps may yield clearest clues to ‘nation’s oldest mystery’
2024年10月10日 · The north end of Roanoke Island, with the Albemarle Sound visible beyond. Photo: National Park Service. ROANOKE ISLAND — While immigration is a hot election-year topic, it’s perhaps notable that speculation continues unabated about the fate of America’s first English immigrants who vanished into the mists of history 437 years ago, with yet another twist in the saga of the real people who ...
Flooded barrier islands, rising mainland risks: USGS study
2025年1月10日 · “Accelerating sea level rise (SLR) and changing storm patterns will increasingly expose barrier islands to coastal hazards, including flooding, erosion, and rising groundwater tables,” according to the study titled, “The projected exposure and response of a natural barrier island system to climate-driven coastal hazards,” published in Nature scientific reports.
Incoming environmental chief Reid Wilson revisits his roots
2025年1月6日 · Then-North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Secretary Reid Wilson, second from left, joins Friends of the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum President Danny Couch, left, Office of Archives and History Deputy Secretary Darin Waters and Maritime Museums System Interim Director Maria Vann in cutting the ceremonial ribbon for invited guests in May 2024 during a preview of the ...
Fort Fisher to mark 160th anniversary of US forces’ capture
2025年1月10日 · Fort Fisher’s cannons, shown here in this N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources photo, will be fired during the upcoming 160th commemoration of the capture of the fort by U.S. forces in January 1865.
Coastal Land Trust secures final million to buy ‘The Point’
2025年1月9日 · Marks has declined to reveal the price tag of the land. He said in an interview last year that the organization expected to spend about $8 million on various expenses, surveys and title searches, and the land itself.
Icy conditions - Coastal Review
2025年1月9日 · An egret hunts along the shore of an icy marsh Thursday near Pelletier Creek in Morehead City. Don't look for a quick thaw as much of coastal North Carolina is under a winter weather advisory from 4 p.m. Friday until 10 a.m. Saturday. The forecast calls for the potential for light accumulations of ice and snow, although little to none is expected from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke Island.
Inundation-prone Sledge Forest site set for development
2024年12月6日 · 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- …