Tag: Georgia Department of Natural Resources
A fleet of MARTA train cars find a new home in the ocean as artificial reefs
It was a balmy 60 degrees last December when two 55,000-pound MARTA railcars slowly inched off a barge east of Ossabaw Island. The 72-foot-long behemoths, which for decades had ferried millions of Atlantans around the city, edged out like hesitant swimmers over the cold, roiling water. And then they tipped and vanished, plunging 60 feet to the seafloor.
Tracking the long, strange trip of the Golden Ray
A boat carrying 4,200 cars capsized in St. Simons Sound in September 2019—and it’s still there.
Gone: The race to stop the fungus killing millions of bats
There are two ways scientists know when white-nose syndrome has colonized a cave: when bat carcasses carpet the floor or when the bats, normally clutching the cave walls, are simply gone.
Guarding the Nest
Beginning this month, typically in the dead of night, pregnant sea turtles weighing as much as a Falcons lineman will emerge from the Atlantic Ocean, spend an hour digging holes with their rear flippers on the beaches of Georgia’s barrier islands, deposit a hundred or so eggs, repack the sand, and head back into the ocean.
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