Trista Talton

Waterkeepers Carolina created the guide with support from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, to provide options to protect water quality and flood protection that local governments can consider when implementing in land use rules.

Military veteran Thomas Marcinowski's final wishes to be interred beneath the waves prompted him to form a nonprofit that enables others who served to have their cremains interred in eco-positive reef modules, including nine whose ashes are to be placed on the seafloor Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency is wasting no time in advancing its plans to eliminate and reevaluate enforceable standards for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including the compound branded GenX found in the drinking water sources of tens of thousands of North Carolinians.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead with plans to strike down the nation's first-ever health standards for chemical contaminants found in the drinking water sources of millions of North Carolinians.

"I’m trying to help the public with their problems related to climate," says Dr. Jared Bowden, a Rocky Mount native who became director of the North Carolina State Climate Office early this month.

SNEADS FERRY — Nearly a dozen abandoned marine vessels left to rot in North Carolina’s coastal waters are expected to be removed by July. Crews this week p

Special report: The state's rapid growth of shellfish leases, especially water column leases where gear must float, has not only led to viewshed complaints from waterfront property owners but also frustration among fishing guides over the operations' effects on access.

Shellfish lease moratoriums covering several coastal counties have pushed growers to the waters near Topsail Island, and the resulting pushback could lead to further restrictions, but growers say producing in-demand, presentation-perfect oysters is difficult enough without the fight.

Bills advanced in the legislature Wednesday that would not only repeal the state's 40-year ban on breakwaters, bulkheads, seawalls, jetties, revetments, and terminal groins, but also provide taxpayer dollars to build and maintain terminal groins.

Hemingway wrote masterfully about an aging Cuban fisherman's heartbreak after losing a giant marlin he'd caught to hungry sharks, a problem that is not an emerging issue, as is often perceived, according to a recently published study.