Trista Talton

A judge has ordered that more than two dozen longstanding rules used to guide coastal development and protect resources be placed back into the North Carolina Administrative Code.

A wild bird rescue organization in Brunswick County is offering a $10,000 reward to stop the common winter occurrence of dead and severely injured brown pelicans washing ashore.

The University of North Carolina Wilmington's benchmark that tracks companies earning revenue via ocean resources has performed poorly since Trump returned to office.

A new report from an ocean advocacy group finds that billions of dollars have been invested in U.S. ports in gearing up for or actively serving the offshore wind energy, which has created thousands of jobs, just as the new administration levels its anti-renewables sights at the industry.

Officials with land trusts across the state are concerned that incentives in the law that took effect Jan. 1 may not be enough to entice property owners to donate.

Agency nixes speed limits proposed to protect right whales

A pending lawsuit notwithstanding, the Environmental Protection Agency has put North Carolina on notice: There's no extension of the time frames for addressing the federal agency's objections regarding the discharge of 1,4 dioxane into waters upstream of the Cape Fear.

The idea behind a planned new portion of Mountains-to-Sea Trail through the Holly Shelter Game Land's lush pocosin in Pender County is to lure hikers safely away from Highway 17 and most other signs of civilization.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is awarding $1 million to the state and conservation organizations to protect the 150-acre, undeveloped tract at the southern end of Topsail Beach.

President Joe Biden on Monday used his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to withdraw from new oil development the entire East Coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, West Coast, and remainder of Alaska’s northern Bering Sea.