When developers began circling Espíritu Santo island in the 1990s, a private conservation effort saw them off. But today the Unesco site faces a new threat: mass tourism ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Friday, the City of St. Augustine celebrated the purchase of some of the last acres of undeveloped land on Fish Island, and now that means a total of 62 acres of that property ...

President Dr. Patrick Herminie Holds Talks with Island Conservation Society on the Future of Seychelles’ Islands, Including Assumption Island ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Great Kills construction project will see a 4-acre harbor-side property transformed into a 60-unit housing development, the Advance/SILive.com has learned. The waterfront ...

ISLE OF PALMS, S.C. (WCSC) - Little Goat Island, the piece of land between Isle of Palms and the mainland, is being preserved as a natural habitat, donated as a conservation easement by the private ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Jack Bolembach is standing on a steep slope of land within the Serpentine Art and Nature Commons in Stapleton, picking up litter and talking about preservation. The ...

A new perspective piece in PNAS explores the idea that people, wildlife and the environment of islands thrive when conservation efforts focus on restoring both the land and sea together. One way to ...

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH — Waties Island, one of South Carolina’s last remaining undeveloped barrier islands, has been the target of conservation efforts for decades and a recent land purchase through a ...

DARIEN — As Darien kicks off its overhaul of the town’s 10-year plan, town officials are reflecting on Darien's most dramatic changes in the past decade and where to go from here. The town’s official ...

This is a preliminary sketch for Lower Cane Island showing 240 residential units and 130,000 square feet of commercial. Hart Howerton for Thrivemore Advisors Hundreds of high-end housing units are in ...

FLORENCE — Buc-ee is king in this corner of rural Florence County. He presides over a tangled maze of cars from Virginia, New York, Georgia, New Jersey — all there to see a gas station. Teenagers with ...