During the week of February 27, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) researchers met with U.S. Coral Reef Task Force stakeholders to provide the status of NCCOS' collaborative research ...

Last fall the small Alaskan coastal village of Kivalina was inundated by a mysterious orange 'goo'(click for photo). Locals and others suspected a toxic algal bloom (see here for image), ...

Marine scientists on Friday plan to begin transplanting about 100 basketball-size corals from an onshore nursery to a damaged reef off the shores of Fort Lauderdale. The transplant, among the ...

This spring, [New York C]ity's Department of Environmental Protection will solicit plans for the first major wind project, the installation of turbines atop the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island ...

Can nursery raised corals restore reefs as well as those grown offshore? NOAA is sponsoring the National Coral Reef Institute to compare the growth rates of each technique. A dramatic ...

ST. THOMAS - Scientists are working on a project in the St. Thomas East End Reserves to see how much sediment and pollution washes into the protected marine sanctuary. The ...

Susan Lovelace, Maria Dillard and Trey Honeycutt participated in the Social CoastForum hosted by the Coastal Services Center in Charleston, SC February 15-16. The purpose ofthe Forum was to gather ...

EDMONDS -- On the jetty at Brackett's Landing this past week, volunteers pried mussels from barnacle-encrusted boulders using serrated table knives. The tiny black bivalves dislodged to crinkling sounds on ...

Climate change imperils human health, posing real and potential threats and costs. To gaina broader understanding of the health effects of climate change in the Southeastern UnitedStates and also to ...

Dissolution of carbon dioxide (CO2) from rising atmospheric CO2 is acidifying ocean water;but a second environmental problem, eutrophication, is having a similar effect in coastal bottomwaters. This occurs because anthropogenic ...