Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like other six-year-old boys in 1978, Mason Waters looked up to the late President Jimmy Carter as his hero. He, like Carter, grew ...

Habitat for Humanity helps homeowners and future homeowners build in their community by providing the tools necessary to construct the financial foundation necessary for purchasing and maintaining a ...

The latest research into the scale, causes and consequences of global loss of coastal habitats has recently been presented. The disappearance of these ecosystems, which include coral reefs, mangrove ...

As the Coastal Empire Habitat for Humanity celebrates its 40th anniversary serving communities across the empire, they broke ground on a new house in Savannah on Friday. It is the house number 158 to ...

Michael Sievers receives funding from the Australian Research Council, project DE220100079, the National Environmental Science Program, and philanthropic foundations. Christopher Brown receives ...

A popular place to hike, kayak and paddleboard is this 682-acre preserve along the south shore of the Manatee River. Formerly agricultural cropland, the preserve is being restored as salt marsh, one ...

Population growth on the North Carolina coast has ramped up pressure on conservation groups to acquire and set aside land, such as the more than 2,000 acres in coastal counties recently protected from ...

Birds Georgia has been awarded two Bill Terrell Avian Conservation Grants from the Georgia Ornithological Society to protect coastal habitats and threatened bird species.

Surging storms and rising seas threaten millions of U.S. residents and billions of dollars in property along coastlines. The nation’s strongest defense, according to a new study by scientists with the ...

A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous coastal-habitat measurements suggests that mangroves and seagrasses provide the greatest value as “nurseries” for young fishes and invertebrates, ...

DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Coastal habitat destruction could put 1 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, 10 times more than previously thought, U.S. researchers say. Scientists at ...