BARNEGAT — For the third time in a year, volunteers will bend at the knees along the ecological-challenged Barnegat Bay estuary Thursday and help cleanup the watershed of trash and debris. The ...

Second year of Barnegat Bay Student Scholarship Program . Deadline: April 1, 2008 Save Barnegat Bay is now accepting applications for the 2008 Barnegat Bay Student Scholarship Program. College ...

This estuary, which spreads across about 64 square miles, has been imperiled for decades. Sewage polluted the waterway through the '60s and '70s, ... Under Barnegat Bay's waves, ...

An annual festival that highlights the importance of protecting the Barnegat Bay estuary and its watershed took on special meaning this year, as the region rebuilds from Superstorm Sandy. Barnegat Bay ...

Barnegat Bay Blitz aims to clean up the shoreline. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. 060315-wpvi-barnegat-4pm-vid. ... beaches and shorelines of the Barnegat Bay estuary to pick up trash. ...

The outlook for Barnegat Bay is getting bleaker all the time. In a new multiyear study by the Rutgers University Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, three researchers concluded overdevelopment ...

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — Southern New Jersey is home to one of the most pristine natural areas on the East Coast — 115,000 acres of protected forest and marsh in ...

Saving Barnegat Bay may come down to at least one environmental trade-off: new inlets or barrier island breaches might help improve water quality, but also worsen local flooding. Scientists will ...

In New Jersey, this species of submerged vegetation is found only in the Barnegat Bay estuary. Eelgrass is a sign of a healthy ecosystem. But this summer it has become too much of a good thing ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CBS) -- A Rutgers University marine scientist says the Barnegat Bay estuary is in bad shape due to pollution, but not the kind where government can cap a pipe or shut down a ...