Steve Harris of Elizabeth City is one of a few dozen farmers to build North Carolina’s first wind farm in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties. Wind energy leases on agricultural land are bringing steady revenue to farmers faced with unpredictable crop yields and an aging workforce. Hear from Harris in this video published by the Sierra Club.
N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C. State University researchers have produced a range history of the expanding coyote species that can help reveal the ecology of predation as well as evolution through hybridization.
Kitty Hawk began in January removing vegetative debris caused by recent storms and other obstructions blocking the flow of the waterways.
Dare County produced this video about Nag Head’s first beach re-nourishment maintenance project. Nearly 4 million cubic yards of sand is to be placed on 10 miles of beach during the $25.5 million project set to begin next spring.
The replacement for the aging Bonner Bridge is expected to open to traffic by the end of the year, the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
Kill Devil Hills is calling for volunteers for its Trash Attack! community cleanup 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and young artists to submit posters for its Earth Day poster contest.
For one of the first times at a large scale, University of Delaware researchers are studying breeding black duck populations in coastal North Carolina in order to get a population estimate and better inform conservation practices in the area. In addition, the researchers are also looking at the implications of sea level rise that directly correlate with the salt marsh, which is where the black ducks mostly nest.
The nor’easter that swept up the East Coast brought 50- to 60-mph winds to the Outer Banks, creating this scene at Jockey’s Ridge State Park in Nags Head. Video: wild obx
Ernest Davis of the North River community near Beaufort explains why the menhaden fishing crews used to sing songs called “chanteys” while pulling in nets heavy with fish. Davis carries on the tradition by performing the songs with the Menhaden Chanteymen, a group that once performed at Carnegie Hall.
To better protect coastal communities, geomorphologists from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill are teaming up with researchers from Oregon State to conduct studies on North Carolina’s sand dunes.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, United Nations Environment Programme, or UN Environment, has produced a short video that takes a lighter look at the issue of marine litter and asks everyone around the world to break up with single-use plastics.
Scientists working at Cape Hatteras seek to understand the natural processes that control the exchange of waters between the continental shelf and the open ocean will launch a research cruise in April.
