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Microplastics are polluting western North Carolina watersheds
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Reporter Jane Winik Sartwell talks about Helene's toll on crops, farms, and farmers in North Carolina.
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A group of researchers and volunteers mapped urban hotspots across 100 square miles of Charlotte.
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Mobile wastewater units bridge the gap as the town brings its damaged sewage treatment plant back online.
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Duke Energy plans to rebuild three of its substations in western North Carolina after Helene’s catastrophic damage. Some resiliency factors include elevating facilities to higher ground and building flood walls.
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Six houses have collapsed into the waves at Rodanthe this year, and 11 in the past four years. With much of the buffering beach and dunes eaten away by erosion, more are poised to fall in any time. The question is becoming not how to save such houses, but rather how to remove them before they collapse.
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Environmental historian Daniel Lewis shares stories of the longleaf pine and the bald cypress, two trees entwined in the history of the South.
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An environmental reporter examines how increasingly dangerous storms, extreme heat, and sea level rise could impact migration in the region.
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Nearly a month and a half after Hurricane Helene flooded western North Carolina, cleanups have started along the Catawba River. However, the enormous amount of debris has delayed restoration efforts further upstream.
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UNC’s ViVE center — that houses all the data — was partly funded through the National Institutes of Health for over $3 million over the course of five years.
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Clean energy advocates say the revised Carbon Plan moves away from fossil fuels too slowly. The plan also pushes back a state goal to reduce emissions by 70% by 2030.
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Learn about how North Carolina is seeing the effects of a warming climate and what workers in some industries can do to protect themselves from heat-related illness.