If you have a waterfront home you may have inherited riprap, bulkhead or other hard materials used to armor shorelines and prevent erosion — but did you know those methods aren’t the best for the bay?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Riprap can be seen on Distant Island to help with tidal river erosion. A developer of Upper Cane Island is proposing 5,951 linear ...

Scientists and coastal advocates agree: Bulkheads are bad news for salt marshes. The vinyl or wooden structures that have long been the go-to solution along North Carolina’s estuaries and sounds, but ...

Property owners with bulkheads along North Carolina’s sounds and Intracoastal Waterway tend to build their homes closer to water and suffered more damage during 2016’s Hurricane Matthew, according to ...