VARNAMTOWN — When it wrapped up last month, the project was a milestone for the N.C. Coastal Federation, an environmental nonprofit that has been working with Brunswick Country since 2008 to help restore the water […]
VARNAMTOWN — When it wrapped up last month, the project was a milestone for the N.C. Coastal Federation, an environmental nonprofit that has been working with Brunswick Country since 2008 to help restore the water […]
First of two parts. WILMINGTON — Ingredients from the paint on your boat and the soap you use to wash your hands might be in those oysters you eat. That’s the take-home message from a […]
Last of two parts. Two professors and four undergraduate students at UNCW are taking a closer look at what is accumulating in oyster tissues as they filter our estuaries. The research is the first […]
SWANSBORO – What do glass bottles, fishing lines, plastic slides, beer cans and bags of dog food have in common? They litter our beaches. At least, that’s what a group of volunteers found on Huggins […]
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH — “We’re being frizzled again!” said Arnold, riding a heat wave head-first towards the Earth. The character from the children book series, The Magic School Bus, is on yet another wild field trip with […]
SWANSBORO – What better way to appreciate the Earth than to step onto the sand barefooted and see the expanse of an ocean for the very first time? It was something of an Earth Day […]
SWANSBORO — On the afternoon of the N.C. Coastal Federation’s first full moon photography cruise not a hint of clear sky was in sight. Just hours before the boat trip rendezvous at Hammocks Beach State […]
OCEAN – EarthWise, as it’s called, started with a seed — first planted in the imagination of an old man and then in the soil by his children. The N.C. Coastal Federation’s small community farm […]
A wall of thick heat waves over me as I step off the plane in Zanzibar. I’d never heard of this Tanzanian island in the Indian Ocean until a friend of mine from college said […]
There are many things for a woman to fear when she travels alone. Perhaps because it wasn’t my first time traveling alone or in Ireland, I wasn’t afraid. However, it was in this cold, dreary […]