Category: Environment

Working waterfront in Seaford, VA, documented during the 2012 working waterfront inventory. ©VASG

New Tool Helps Investments in Working Waterfronts

11/8/2012 - Chad Ballard, the owner of Cherrystone Aquafarms, knows where his company has been. He can point to a more than 100-year history on the Eastern Shore. Ask him where his business is going, and there’s a little more uncertainty. A few years ago, Ballard had hoped to plant an additional… SEE MORE

October Light in the Lens on the Coast

11/8/2012 - Every October, my camera and I head out for a sail, or two, to capture the fall foliage in the lens. This year, for help, I took a tripod, strapped it down to a cleat, set the lens, focus, timer, and went hunting. Sailing+fall foliage=elusive target. As usual, I came… SEE MORE

ARTEMIS stands up to a gust in Newport Harbor during Hurricane Sandy. WHITEHAWK is in the foreground and REBECCA just astern.

Riding Out the Storm at Anchor and Ashore in Newport

11/2/2012 - Most boaters were able to haul their yachts or at, the very least, find a tidy basin to tuck their boats into before Hurricane Sandy's impact was felt on the New England shore. But a large yachts chose to ride out the storm in Newport Harbor, and Corinna Halloran's photos… SEE MORE

Storm Scenes: Videos Show NJ, NY Hurricane Destruction

11/1/2012 - The scenes of destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy along the mid-Atlantic coast and Long Island continue to amaze and horrify us. Even with plenty of time to prepare for this storm, its winds and waves were clearly so powerful that most assemblies of wood, concrete, mortar, and nails were simply… SEE MORE

Save The Bay's aquarium, located at Easton's Beach in Newport, was seriously damaged by the passing of Hurricane Sandy.

Newport Aquarium Damaged by Hurricane Sandy

11/1/2012 - As every Rhode Islander now knows, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our coastal communities – especially those along the southern shores of Rhode Island from Westerly to Little Compton. The effects of this storm are far reaching and will be long felt. Aquidneck Island was no exception. While we were… SEE MORE

Homes are flooded in Tuckerton, NJ, on October 30 after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the Jersey Shore the previous day.

Storm Scenes: Hurricane Sandy at the Jersey Shore

10/31/2012 - As New Jersey struggles to get back on its feet in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scenes from the Jersey Shore are starting to show the extent of the damage and the amount of time it's going to take to clean up and, in many cases, rebuild. Here's a gallery… SEE MORE

Coast Guard House Restaurant in Gansett was heavily damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

Storm Scenes: Destruction on the Rhode Island Shore

10/31/2012 - My brother Steve went down to Narragansett and the south shore to check out the damage on Tuesday, October 30. He checked out many of the fishing areas. Just about everywhere is either a mess or destroyed. Many of the roads along the beaches are impassible due to sand, rocks,… SEE MORE

Ramp at Sail Newport, looking into Brenton Cove, on the morning of October 29 as the first impacts of Hurricane Sandy were felt.

Storm Scenes: Hurricane Sandy Arrives in Newport

10/29/2012 - The first impacts of Hurricane Sandy were beginning to be felt at Sail Newport and Newport Harbor in general on the morning of October 29, with the storm surge combining with the high tide to overtop several local roads and parking lots. Winds in the morning were only in the… SEE MORE

Just before the morning high tide, waves were crashing over the Rockland breakwater. With the storm surge, they overtopped it.

Storm Scenes: Midcoast Maine Prepares for Sandy

10/29/2012 - Though Hurricane Sandy looked like it would make landfall in New Jersey, the massive storm's impacts were already being felt on the morning of October 29 in midcoast Maine. A northeast wind had already stiffened into the twenty-knot range with gusts to thirty, and a quick check of Rockland, Rockport,… SEE MORE

Hurricane Sandy is proving to be as unpredictable as it is deadly.

Storm Prep: How to Track Hurricane Sandy

10/27/2012 - Virtually everyone on the East Coast is keeping an eye on Hurricane Sandy (the storm has switched between being a hurricane and a tropical storm a couple of times since it formed in the Caribbean Sea) as it zig-zags up the shore. The storm is generating plenty of sensational headlines… SEE MORE

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