Category Archives: Nature

Dolphins on the west side of the Oceanic Bridge in mid-July. (Photo courtesy of Mary Fenton) A team of experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has decided that the dolphins in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers are just...

Some of the dolphins off Rumson in July, shortly after they moved upriver from the Shrewsbury to the Navesink. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over the pod of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins that has been in local...

Dolphins in the upper Shrewsbury in late June. Federal marine experts say they have an answer to slippery question: How may dolphins are there in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers? Answer: Twelve, at least 10 of which have spent most...

NOAA officials on dolphin watch in the Shrewsbury River in late June. Federal marine authorities say they are one week closer to implementing an effort to lure or drive visiting dolphins out of the Navesink River and toward the Atlantic...

The treeful of orange leaves underscores the message of this truck parked at the foot of Hudson Avenue on East Bergen Place in Red Bank. Email this item

The Highlands-Sea Bright (Route 36) Bridge, as seen yesterday from the deck at Gaiter's Restaurant in Sea Bright. Pile driving and other loud work on the Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge now under reconstruction has been quieted to enhance the possibility that...

A boat nears a dolphin in the Shrewsbury River early last summer, before the pod headed upriver along the Navesink. The Asbury Park Press is reporting that dolphins have been spotted in the Shrewsbury River in recent days, giving rise...

The view downriver from the Oceanic Bridge, the route the remaining dolphins would need to travel to reach the Shrewsbury River and, ultimately, Sandy Hook Bay. Federal marine experts this afternoon outlined two acoustics-based approaches to moving the remaining bottlenose...

A boater stands for a better look at dolphins near the Oceanic Bridge Wednesday afternoon. (Click to enlarge) The deaths of two dolphins in recent weeks has prompted a telephone confab among marine and federal officials to consider whether and...

A State Police Marine Unit boat travels east along the Navesink yesterday afternoon, shortly after receiving the report of a dead dolphin on the Middletown side. The decomposed corpse of a young dolphin was found in the Navesink River yesterday,...

A marine animal advocacy group has dialed up its calls for a forced removal of the visiting dolphin pod from the Navesink River following the death of a young female this week. Meanwhile, redbankgreen has gotten an unconfirmed report that...

Dolphins swimming off Fair Haven on July 9. Preliminary results of a necropsy performed on the dolphin found dead in Fair Haven yesterday morning indicate the juvenile died of of pneumonia, today's Asbury Park Press reports. The death of the...

Deer seen last week in Thompson Park, Lincroft. Email this story

Bushels of clams await transport from a dock in Sea Bright earlier this summer. A lawsuit filed in federal court last month by local clammers names Red Bank as one of several "culprits" responsible for pollution that has cut their...

After feeding near the Oceanic Bridge since July 7, it's time for the pod to go, says a marine biologist. Wildlife experts should execute a plan to remove a visiting dolphin pod from the Navesink River or risk the animals...

Oceanic Marina owner Pete Pawlikowski says he's never seen, or heard of, sharks in the Navesink River. Are there, or have there been, sharks in the Navesink River lately? How about shark-mangled seals? An Associated Press story earlier this week...

Better for the environment, and maybe for you, too. Ever wonder that yourself — what constitutes organic, and who says so? Well, tonight at the Whole Foods Market on Route 35 in Middletown tonight, environmental attorney and mother Kristin McPolin...

Andrew Mencinsky and a brigade of sea paddlers head down the Hudson River last year. They'll be doing the same next week. In May, 2007, a two-mile-wide tornado tore through the town of Greensburg, Kansas, destroying 95 percent of its...

Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...

Motorists flock to the railing of the Oceanic Bridge when car traffic is stopped for boat traffic. Cars have also been stopping when they're not supposed to, county officials say. Monmouth County is warning motorists not to park on the...