The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. The National Science Foundation had said in May that it would begin removing hundreds of underwater instruments this month that collect data on coastal…
Tropical Storm Arthur dissipated almost as quickly as it formed on Wednesday, but meteorologists’ concerns about it will linger much longer as flooding rains that began on Sunday will spread across the Gulf Coast for the rest of this week. As the storm moves northeast out of eastern Texas and through the Southeast, the counterclockwise…
From the water, the private sea wall in Rom Reddy’s backyard looks like a concrete fortress guarding his mansion in Isle of Palms, S.C., a wealthy beachfront community east of Charleston. A sign on it reads: “No trespassing. Private property.” Since 2023, he has been in a legal battle with South Carolina’s primary environmental agency…
