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Groups call for federal protection of diamondback terrapins

10/03/2024

Nonprofits have petitioned the federal fisheries agency to list as endangered the diamondback terrapin, an estuarine creature frequently drowned in abandoned crab pots.

Spotlight

Parks officials cancel most events as disaster still unfolds

Staff Report

10/02/2024

Operations scale back to allow staff to continue assisting with the statewide emergency and rescue efforts in Western North Carolina.

News Briefs

Marine Fisheries Commission seeks committee members

The commission that makes marine fisheries rules has several vacancies coming up in various advisory committees.

Cape Fear bridge replacement comment period ends Oct. 25

State transportation officials are accepting public comment and have scheduled meetings Oct. 8 and Oct. 9 about the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement project and plans to widen South Front Street.

Parks officials cancel most events as disaster still unfolds

Operations scale back to allow staff to continue assisting with the statewide emergency and rescue efforts in Western North Carolina.

Comment period opens for 8 proposed fisheries rules

The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission has opened a public comment period on proposed rules related to the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, false albacore management and pot marking requirements.

PBS series explores extreme weather, climate change

“Weathered: Earth’s Extremes” features 30-minute episodes that follow host and science communicator Maiya May as she looks into the impacts of climate change and meets with the people inside communities on the frontline of extreme weather.

More News Briefs

Special Coverage

Fifty Years of CAMA

Our focus on the 50th anniversary of North Carolina’s landmark Coastal Area Management Act: the policy, process, accomplishments, controversies and challenges — past and present.

Groups call for federal protection of diamondback terrapins

Trista Talton

10/03/2024

Nonprofits have petitioned the federal fisheries agency to list as endangered the diamondback terrapin, an estuarine creature frequently drowned in abandoned crab pots.

Science

Vesta says olivine sand carbon project at Duck yielding data

Catherine Kozak

09/13/2024

The light green sand from a Norway mine deposited nearshore earlier this year in Duck is part of a pilot project studying how the material, when activated by seawater, removes carbon from the ocean and atmosphere.

Commentary

Nuts about figs? These edible, inverted flowers thrive here

Heidi S. Skinner

09/25/2024

There’s something about figs, the fruit that’s actually not, and the easy-to-propagate tree that — like so many of us — simply loves life on the North Carolina coast.

Our Coast

Topsail Mayor Smith ‘was always doing his homework’

Trista Talton

09/17/2024

Steve Smith, a Virginia native and East Carolina University graduate who was serving his second term as Topsail Beach mayor and had a reputation for educating himself on coastal issues, died Friday at 73.

Preserved Skinnersville church bears builders’ handprints

Kip Tabb

09/16/2024

Rural Washington County is home to a restored 170-year-old house of worship on the National Register, and the nonprofit group formed to restore the structure likely built by enslaved people says it offers revealing glimpses into our past.