This video, featuring Coastal Review Online editor Mark Hibbs, is the first of a two-part series on the impact of climate change in the Southeast. The series features newsrooms and reporting projects from the Southeast that contributed to the Pulitzer Center’s Connected Coastlines initiative. Coastal Review Online published earlier this year a multipart Changing Minds On Climate Science that was part of the reporting initiative.
“Long the Cultural and Social Centers of the Town,” learn in this video by Nags Head more about the history of the town’s three fishing piers, how to be an ethical angler, and what’s biting when.
The nonprofit Corolla Wild Horse Fund has kicked off a fundraiser, offering for download a song, “Castaño,” about the wild horses that roam the northern banks of Currituck County. The song co-written by Richmond, Virginia-based artist Janet Martin and Kelly Wilkes, a Corolla Wild Horse Fund volunteer, is previewed here in a 60-second clip. The full track and lyrics are available at the Corolla Wild Horse Fund’s website for $5. Supporters may donate more.
North Carolina Cooperative Extension horticulture expert Matt Jones explains how to identify poisonous plants found across the state. This video is part of Homegrown, a video series by the North Carolina State Extension and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences that features tips and tools from the subject-matter expert.
Daniel R Simmons, assistant secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, announced in this video Friday that the last of the five-stage Waves to Water prize, a challenge to produce clean water using the power of waves, will be on the open water at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head, in partnership with Coastal Studies Institute, or CSI.
Drone footage taken April 27 in Emerald isle shows renourishment work that’s part of the second phase of a $28 million project to repair Hurricane Florence’s damage to the beach in 2018. Greg Rudolph of the Carteret County Shore Protection Office told Coastal Review Online Monday that there are several phases of the project and, having completed the sand pumping that started Feb. 8 and ended Wednesday, they will begin planting sea oats this week on the dunes. Video: Carteret County Shore Protection. Story by Jennifer Allen
In this video produced by the Outer Banks Hospital, Chief of Staff Dr. Dan Dwyer emphasizes the importance of social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19, commends Dare County officials for the recently enacted “Stay Home – Stay Healthy” declaration and encourages social media civility.
Because oysters are filter feeders, they are effective at removing nutrients and improving water quality, and researchers see opportunities to expand their economic value. Suzanne Bricker and her colleagues with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science are measuring the amount of nutrients removed by oysters along the East Coast to help states develop nutrient management plans that include oyster farms.
Professor Howard Kunreuther discusses the processes and biases in decision-making under uncertainty in the video “Human Biases: Why People Underprepare for Disasters” released Tuesday by FEMA and its emergency management partners.
This month in Outer Banks History looks at the Battle of Roanoke Island that took place in the early stages of the Civil War. Outer Banks History Center Director Samantha Crisp details the February 1862 battle in this video produced by Dare County’s CurrentTV.
“I wonder: What will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing a climate chaos that you knowingly brought upon them? That it seemed so bad for the economy that we decided to resign the idea of securing future living conditions without even trying?” Seventeen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg posed these questions this week to world leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
A new course offering at the University of North Carolina approaches the topic of the changing Carolina coastline in a different way, through a mix of marine sciences and creative writing. UNC professors Bland Simpson and Brent McKee seek to inspire a new generation of writers to discuss coastal issues and young scientists to effectively communicate their research. In addition to reading scientific articles and creative fiction, the course also includes excursions to explore the North Carolina coast firsthand.
