News tagged with coastal counties
Guide offers smart growth help for coastal and waterfront planners and developers
NOAA, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the International City/County Management Association and Rhode Island Sea Grant, has released a guide to bring smart growth to coastal and waterfront communities.
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Report shows mid-Atlantic has high potential for wind energy
The breezes blowing across the shallow waters of the mid-Atlantic coast, including North Carolina, hold some of the nation's highest potential for harvesting wind energy, a new federal report says.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Seeking a pot of geological gold
Researchers are moving a step closer to solving one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time. It happened roughly 200 million years ago, marking the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2011 |
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No double-Dip recession
A new forecast focused on the U.S., California, and the Riverside/San Bernardino region says the economy is not headed for another downturn, and that nationwide, growth will begin to accelerate in late 2011 and 2012.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Offshore wind turbine test center planned for Eastern Shore
A new international partnership of energy companies announced plans Wednesday to build a facility in Northampton County, Va., where offshore wind turbines can be tested on solid ground.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 18, 2011 |
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More poor kids in more poor places, study finds
Persistent high poverty is most prevalent among children, with those living in rural America disproportionally impacted, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Fish kills trigger red tide alerts, first responders
Acting on a tip from a constituent, Cameron County Commissioner Sofia Benavides recently drove out to a section of the Gulf Coast within her jurisdiction, Boca Chica Beach, between the mouth of the Rio Grande ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Study predicts sea level rise may take economic toll on California coast
California beach towns could face hefty economic losses caused by sea level rise in the next century, according to a new state-commissioned study conducted by economists at San Francisco State University. ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year
(AP) -- Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Tree-killing pathogen traced back to California
Genetic detective work by an international group of researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery of the source of a devastating tree-killing fungus that has hit six of the world's seven continents.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Irene takes out some East Coast cellphone service
(AP) -- Wireless networks fell quiet Sunday in some coastal areas of North Carolina and southern Virginia, but calls were going through in most areas affected by Tropical Storm Irene, the Federal Communications Commission ...
Aug 29, 2011 |
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New study shows that Florida's reefs cannot endure a 'cold snap'
Remember frozen iguanas falling from trees during Florida's 2010 record-breaking cold snap? Well, a new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science ...
Aug 26, 2011 |
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