Mobile and Baldwin County News
The Nature Conservancy's coastal Alabama team, led by Judy Haner, is restoring shorelines from Lightning Point in Bayou La Batre to Robinson Island in Orange Beach by partnering with nearly…
A lifelong Mobile resident who summered in Point Clear explains how hardened shorelines, runoff and growth have changed coastal waters, and why protecting them requires the whole community.
The third installment of the 'A Thousand Cuts' series examines the living shorelines, public land restoration and funding challenges shaping the fight to save Alabama's disappearing coastal marshes.
Between 2009 and 2021, the Mississippi Sound and Portersville and Heron bays lost 210 acres of marsh — about 159 football fields. Scientists, landowners and boaters explain what is driving…
Researchers at the University of South Alabama found that the vertical seawalls lining much of Mobile Bay's residential shoreline harm natural habitat and cost more to maintain than marsh.