Outdoors

A new batch of oyster babies are adjusting to life in the Barnegat Bay.

"Other than the fact that you’re working with 5,000- to 7,000-pound animals, there’s not really a whole lot of trouble to get into here."

New Jersey beaches and state parks are now mostly smoke free.

Numerous hypodermic syringes have been found late this week on Monmouth County's beaches.

As part of a beach fill and dune construction project along the northern Ocean County coast, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging and pumping sand on Ortley Beach.

The juvenile whale - estimated to be more than 30-feet-long - was freed Wednesday, months after the first reports of entanglement by a piece of gill net.

The dangerous and invasive clinging jellyfish continue to head south along the Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, a marine biologist says.

Waves from the strengthening Tropical Storm Chris and associated rip currents will begin to impact New Jersey by midweek. 

The shrub is already banned in New York, Maine, and other states. It’s a haven for ticks and mice.

For the fourth consecutive summer season, a Portuguese man-of-war has been found on a New Jersey beach.

If the heat’s gotten the best of you this week, fear not. I’ve rounded up some places where you can escape the city and cool down.

The above-normal temperatures are resulting in cases of dehydration that can develop into heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

The pest has spread to 13 southeastern counties. The rush is on to kill it.

It’s courtesy of the sea breeze effect.