Remember when coastal real estate was a liquid asset and great investment? Though those days are gone, we could learn from our mistakes.
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From Polluting Sewer Plant to City Showcase
Riverworks at Sturgeon City in Jacksonville is a memorial to how one community pulled together to reverse the devastation caused by years of dumping sewage into Wilson Bay.
College Students Take Their Break With Us
Instead of frosty cocktails and sunny beaches, these college kids chose oyster shells and rain gardens for their spring break.
North River Farms: Making the Land Work Again
The N.C. Coastal Federation and a dizzying array of partners are restoring wetlands on thousands of acres of ditched and drained farm land in eastern Carteret County.
Doctors Warn About Gutting State Air Program
The legislature’s “reckless attack” on the program to protect people from toxic emissions, they say, would end with more sick North Carolinians.
Sam’s Field Notes: Yellow-Rumped Warblers
When these winter visitors are gone, we know spring has arrived in coastal N.C.
State’s Toxic Air Program Threatened
Industry is pushing legislators to drastically modify a state program that protects people from toxic air emissions.
30 Years of Protecting the Coast
The N.C. Coastal Federation marks its 30th anniversary this year with a documentary that celebrates the ordinary people who saved extraordinary places.
Groups Aim to Keep Fishing Traditions Alive
Leaders in the state’s growing local-catch movement aim to keep North Carolina’s fishing traditions alive, but the big challenge ahead is getting the rest of us to remember that “buy local” applies to seafood, too.
Lockwood Folly River: Nature and Nurture
The Lockwoods Folly River in Brunswick County is a bountiful gift from nature that requires a little help from its human friends.
Lockwood Folly River: A Center of Commerce, Culture
The Lockwoods Folly River has been a center of culture and commerce in Brunswick County for generations.
The Lockwoods Folly River
Diversity marks the full course of the Lockwoods Folly River in Brunswick County. Come meet a fetching river in this, the first of a three-part series.
Remembering the Ash Wednesday Storm
Fifty years ago this week, one of the worst storms to to strike the N.C. coast dealt a staggering blow to the Outer Banks.
Restoration Is Good for Business
A landmark report on conserving our coastal habitats gives those who preserve coasts and estuaries a new argument: It’s good for the economy.
Warning: May Cause Toe Tapping
A coastal high school jazz band is joining the North Carolina’s legendary Red Clay Ramblers for a concert that is sure to be an audience pleaser.
Dancing at the Crossroads
In the past several years, huge progress has been made in gaining acceptance for low-impact development along our coast
