The annual red knot arrival is underway as federal regulators have unveiled a plan to protect nearly 700,000 acres in New Jersey, Delaware, and 11 other states.
Sea level rise is a reality and one that will not change anytime soon. Cape May County, with its close proximity to seawater and reliance on the ocean for much of its economy, will feel the effects of climate change and the ensuing seawater rise more heavily than most of the nation.
Beset by sea level rise and increasing storm damage, most residents of the Delaware Bay community of Money Island have opted to take buyouts from the state and abandon their homes.
Climate change may lead to unlikely illnesses in unexpected places, new research suggests: Five separate cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating infection caused by handling or eating seafood, occurred over the past two years in Delaware Bay.
