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.
Descender devices: Safely resend released fish to their depth
Dec 11, 2024 · Descender devices, as they are known, are hooked to the jaw of a fish and allowed to be pulled down to whatever depth that the fish came from before detaching by jerking the weight away, allowing the fish to swim off.
Officials urge residents to prepare for colder temperatures
Dec 3, 2024 · With this week’s colder weather coinciding with Winter Awareness Week, Dec. 1-7, Gov. Roy Cooper is encouraging residents to plan and prepare ahead.
Whales that use echolocation mistake plastic for prey: study
Nov 8, 2024 · It is widely assumed that seals and toothed whales mistake plastic for food because of appearance, particularly plastic bags and films that look like squid and jellyfish, according to the study, but that doesn’t explain why deep-diving species like sperm whales and beaked whales that use echolocation are ingesting plastic.
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 …
Researcher tracks how species adapt to climate change
Oct 2, 2024 · There is a grippingly real sense of dread that some people feel about the state of the environment. That’s what Dr. Paul Taillie, assistant professor of geography and the environment at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, told an audience last week during the most recent “Science on the Sound” monthly lecture series hosted by Coastal Studies Institute at the East Carolina ...
Van der Vaart: Likely carcinogen does not equal carcinogen
Sep 24, 2024 · Chief Administrative Law Judge and Director of the Office of Administrative Hearings Dr. Donald van der Vaart revoked permit limits of 1,4-dioxane for municipal wastewater treatment plants that discharge a compound the EPA calls a likely human carcinogen into the drinking water sources of tens of thousands.
Superintendent’s warning to coastal commission rings true
Nov 18, 2024 · More than 150,000 people stayed overnight last year in its four beach campgrounds. During that same time, the national seashore had more than 3 million visits, ones Hallac described as long-duration, high-density visits …
Pender, Onslow towns seek moratorium on shellfish leases
Oct 17, 2024 · Pender commissioners were the last of five elected boards to approve the resolution, an idea of which was first circulated back in August by the Topsail Island Shoreline Protection Commission, or TISPC.. The commission, which is made up of elected officials and local government appointees from the island’s three beach towns – North Topsail Beach, Surf City, and Topsail Beach — and Onslow ...
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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.