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King Tides Expected During This Weekend
North Carolina King Tides Project is asking for photos of this weekend’s king tide event to better understand storm, tidal and wind-driven flooding in the area and help visualize how “normal” high tides could look in the future due to sea-level rise.
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Bag Ban Repeal, Fisheries Panel Cuts Loom
Measures to repeal the Outer Banks ban on plastic shopping bags and to cut the two at-large seats from the Marine Fisheries Commission have advanced in the General Assembly.
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State Agencies Seek Answers on GenX
State environmental and health regulators said they will continue studying the presence of the chemical GenX in the Cape Fear River as the chemical’s manufacturer moves to halt discharge.
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Langley Picked As Lower Neuse Riverkeeper
Katy Langley has accepted the position of Lower Neuse Riverkeeper after the recent departure of Travis Graves.
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Help Needed To Find Sick Humpback
The Outer Banks Marine Mammal Stranding Network seeks the public’s help in locating a sick and emaciated humpback whale spotted Saturday north of Oregon Inlet.
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Misidentifying Mackerels Could Cost
The Division of Marine Fisheries is advising anglers to look carefully when deciding to keep or release a mackerel, as mistaking a king for a Spanish can get expensive.
News Waves
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News & Features
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Navassa Residents Demand Health Answers
Folks living near the site of a former wood-treatment operation in Navassa in Brunswick County say their questions about its health risks have gone unanswered for too long.
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Can Hemp Take Root As Coastal Cash Crop?
Northeastern N.C. farmer Fen Rascoe is one of a few dozen in the state licensed to grow hemp, a once-important cash crop now legal again for the first time in decades.
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Science
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Runoff Study Aims For Better Water Quality
Researchers with the UNC-Institute of Marine Sciences are working with Beaufort to help the town better protect coastal waters from stormwater pollution.
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Our Coast
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Waterfowl Museum to Celebrate 25 Years
A tribute to Harkers Island musicians will be part of Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center’s 25th anniversary celebration June 23-24.
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Screech Owls of the Longleaf Pines
Spending time alone in the deep longleaf pine forest, nature photographer Jared Lloyd has developed his own theories about the coloring of the eastern screech owl.
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Commentary
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James Barrie Gaskill, Friend of Our Coast
James Barrie Gaskill of Ocracoke, an educator, commercial fisherman, family man and advocate for a healthy North Carolina coast, died Wednesday at 74.
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Featured Photo
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‘Storm Front at the Cape’
A severe storm cell moves in at Cape Lookout early on May 30. Photo: Joel Elliott
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Featured Video
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Identifying Rip Currents
Scientists from the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute and Kill Devil Hills Ocean Rescue use fluorescein dye to track rip currents within the surf zone as illustrated in this short video from 2015. The video does not have sound.
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