Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adapt rather than keep fighting. That was the thinking behind an ambitious and out-of-the-box project by the Battleship North ...

This article was updated at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday with comments from the state recreational water quality program manager. More than 100 North Carolina beaches and waterways were potentially unsafe for ...

File photo of a forested area in the Pisgah National Forest on May 24, 2023. Under the Trump Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a conservation ...

Hundreds of people gathered at Haywood Community College for the third annual WNC Environmental Summit, a student-led event.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina legislators finalized a bill Thursday that would eliminate an interim greenhouse gas reduction mandate set in a landmark 2021 law, while still directing regulators to ...

Community groups in Virginia and North Carolina are putting pressure on the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to deny a permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Southgate project.

BURNSVILLE, N.C. — As Western North Carolina’s forests recover from Hurricane Helene, environmental groups say Pisgah and Nantahala face a one-two punch from the federal government, potentially ...

After Chancellor Lee Roberts announced on Jan. 21 that UNC would move forward with the development of Carolina North, a satellite campus 2 miles off of UNC’s main campus, some community members have ...

Armadillos are making North Carolina their home. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with wildlife biologist Colleen Olfenbuttel about how Texas' state mammal has gotten a foothold in the Tar Heel State.

The clean energy movement is hiding in plain sight in North Carolina, despite setbacks to adoption at the federal level. That's according to the new Clean Energy Across America report, which looks at ...

The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission will hold three public hearings in April on proposed rules to monitor and reduce three PFAS compounds in wastewater discharged into the state’s ...