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Wilkes and Watauga counties are now in exceptional drought, the most severe category in North Carolina.
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Rivercane enthusiasts hope this native bamboo can help to heal old harms to land and people – and strengthen the riverbank against the next flood.
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Most of the money is for debris removal and road repair.
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Insurance is staying relatively flat, but that’s not the whole story.
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Last week, the EPA rolled back a key climate finding that gave the federal agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Wednesday morning, environmental groups took the EPA and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, to court.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation froze funds for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. A federal court deemed that action “capricious and unnecessary” after the program had already restarted.
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Extremely low temperatures are driving up energy use across the Carolinas, straining the electrical grid. There are currently more than 5,000 outages, with many concentrated in areas previously impacted by Hurricane Helene.
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As temperatures creep upward, people are making big life choices that factor in our warming climate. But few decide to paddle nearly 2,000 miles to the Gulf Coast because climate change interferes with their livelihoods.
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A beloved tourist attraction in western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains will be demolished starting later this month. The Lake Lure Flowering Bridge sustained severe damage from Hurricane Helene last year.
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Residents can provide feedback in a new survey about the county's responses to disasters like floods.
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Civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. coined the term “environmental racism” while participating in a historic North Carolina protest that birthed a movement.
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Six months after Helene wreaked havoc on western North Carolina, roughly one-third of the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway remains closed, but the National Parks Service has begun projects to repair the damage.