A new form of climate denial threatens the North Carolina coast
A new form of climate denial threatens the North Carolina coast | Opinion
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A new form of climate denial threatens the North Carolina coast | Opinion
Second in a three-part series on the challenges and goals of managing tourism on the Outer Banks. This installment examines the connection between tourism and the environmental stewardship of the area’s natural treasures.
This installment examines the connection between tourism and the environmental stewardship of the area’s natural treasures.
RODANTHE, N.C. — Miles off the coast of the mainland of North Carolina, exposed to the fury and beauty of the Atlantic, the only constant for the Outer Banks is change.
Miles off the coast of the mainland of North Carolina, exposed to the fury and beauty of the Atlantic, the only constant for the Outer Banks is change.The chain of barrier islands has been moving, growing, eroding, and reforming for millennia, but those changes don’t always coexist with the development that’s cropped up across the islands over the past several decades.For more than 20 years, Dr. Reide Corbett, Executive Director of the Coastal Studies Institute, has watched the conflict firsthand from Roanoke Island.