Longer, dryer droughts, warmer seasons year-round -- the outlook for wildfires is increasingly grim as the state rapidly ...

A Wilmington-area community action group intends to "shine a spotlight on business-related human rights abuses associated ...

ATLAS pointing away from the setting sun is visible Sunday evening over Taylors Creek in Beaufort. NASA says the "dirty ...

People cause 99% of wildfires, and half of those are due to carelessness, according to the North Carolina Forest Service, all while climate change is making conditions worse.

The measure of economic activities in oceans and waterways with an emphasis on environmental impact beat the performance of ...

Archaeologist Eric Klingelhofer of the First Colony Foundation says a review of historic maps indicates that the Croatan ...

Pages Creek watershed residents are invited to hear updates on the Pages Creek Watershed Protection Plan later this month.

Surf City oceanfront. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington district recently published a draft of the General Reevaluation Report and Environmental Assessment for the Surf City Coastal Storm Risk ...

The federal agency that identifies offshore wind energy areas is in the early stages of siting another possible commercial lease sale for the East Coast. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held an ...

The sun sets over Albemarle Sound in Edenton earlier this month near the N.C. Highway 32 bridge in this photo submitted by Tom Brennan of Edenton. “For the past couple of years I’ve been flying my ...

DUCK — For a few days this summer, three split-hull barges chugged south from Norfolk, Virginia, to deposit 6,500 cubic yards of olivine sand mined in Norway at a nearshore area of this small ...

As N.C. Highway 32 winds through Washington County, it passes through Skinnersville, an unincorporated township with a population of just over 700. There isn’t much here; a few homes along the south ...