Waterfront retreat: A bay community faces rising seas and buyouts
TOM HORTON / YALE ENVIRONMENT 360 - When Meghan Wren came to look at a place for sale in 1997 in tiny Money Island, an outpost [go to article]
How farmers in New Jersey’s Pinelands grapple with the environmental toll of Thanksgiving cranberries
STEPH YIN / WHYY - Whether sauce, jelly or fresh, cranberries have to be on the table for Thanksgiving. But the tradition comes [go to article]
West Milford files complaint, blames Highlands Act for $500,000 in yearly losses
DAVID M. ZIMMER / NORTHJERSEY.COM - New Jersey's Highlands Act costs local taxpayers more than a half-million dollars a year in lost revenues [go to article]
Facing rising sea levels, Jersey Shore voters still love Trump
MIKE KELLY / ASBURY PARK PRESS / NORTHJERSEY.COM - From the window of his second-floor office in the middle of a narrow barrier island [go to article]
Trump Administration makes it easier to dredge protected areas to restore beaches
CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE / NY TIMES - The Trump administration changed a 25-year-old policy to make it easier for coastal communities to take sand from protected [go to article]
How climate change is affecting Atlantic City
JOE MARTUCCI / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY - Atlantic City ranks near the top for New Jersey places most impacted by climate change [go to article]
New funding to study microplastic pollution effect on Delaware Bay blue crabs
MARK EICHMANN / WHYY - The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is often held up as the poster child for ocean pollution. And while the collection of trash collecting [go to article]
Environment officials move to protect NJ lighthouse considered among most vulnerable in nation
NBC NY 4 - New Jersey environmental officials are moving to protect a lighthouse on Delaware Bay considered one of the most vulnerable in the nation to rising seas [go to article]
Opinion: We need to stop building Shore houses
CLAIRE SASKO / PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE - Approximately no one wants to lose the Jersey Shore as we know it to climate change. But real talk: This is what we face [go to article]
Shutdown of N.J. nuclear plant has a surprising stinging consequence
WAYNE PARRY / AP / THE MORNING CALL - The shutdown of one of the nation’s oldest nuclear power plants last year is having a surprising, stinging consequence [go to article]
