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A member of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force searches a flood-damaged property in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on Friday in Asheville, N.C. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Why the 2024 Hurricane Season Could Finally Change the Conversation Around Climate Change

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

An Army National Guard member assists a resident with potable water in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 29 in Old Fort, N.C. Credit: Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

N.C. Health Officials Issue Guidelines for Thousands of Potentially Flooded Private Wells 

By Lisa Sorg

Hudson Johnson passes hay to Kristen Kiker, as she prepares to tow it across floodwaters with a paddleboard to feed horses and goats on a nearby farm in Black Mountain, N.C., on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene Prompts Questions About Raising Animals in Increasingly Vulnerable Places

By Georgina Gustin

From left: Lisa Schehr, Mae Brouhard, Chloe Schehr, Nikki Wagg and Dawn Overmyer are beekeepers on a 12-acre family farm near Midway, N.C. Their family land, including the beekeeping farm, is in the path of the Transco pipeline expansion. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Family of Beekeepers Could Lose Their Hives Because of a Massive Pipeline Expansion

By Lisa Sorg

Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Monday in Marshall, N.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

How Climate Change Intensified Helene and the Appalachian Floods

By Sean Sublette

Andrea Childers stands in the creek on her property, which sits next to the Moriah Energy Center site in southeastern Person County.

As the Planet Warms, Activists in North Carolina Mobilize to Stop a Gathering Storm

Story by Lisa Sorg, Inside Climate News and photos by Julia Wall, The Assembly

The Cape Fear River has been contaminated with forever chemicals, such as PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane from industrial dischargers upstream. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.

By Lisa Sorg

A person walks through a flooded street caused by the rain and storm surge from Tropical Storm Debby on Monday in Cedar Key, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Debby Drenched the Southeast. Climate Change Is Making Storms Like This Even Wetter

By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg

For more than 30 years Chemours and its predecessor, DuPont, discharged “forever chemicals” into the Cape Fear River near Fayetteville, North Carolina. Credit: Chemours

North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for ‘Forever Chemicals’

By Lisa Sorg

A Tesla charging station is seen at a travel plaza off Interstate-95 in Cecil County, Maryland. One of the funded projects includes efforts to deploy new electric vehicle charging stations along the Interstate-95 corridor in New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

New Federal Grants Could Slash U.S. Climate Emissions by Nearly 1 Billion Metric Tons Through 2050

By Kristoffer Tigue, Marianne Lavelle

Part of the Bolin Creek Greenway in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, runs along a mound of coal ash behind a fence. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina’s Iconic College Town Struggles to Redevelop a Toxic Coal Ash Mound

By Lisa Sorg

Eastern Hellbenders are cold and slick to the touch, but are also very muscular.

In North Carolina, Eastern Hellbenders Are a Species of Concern, Threatened by the Vagaries of Climate Change

Story and photos by Lisa Sorg

A wetland in the Croatan National Forest in eastern North Carolina. Wetlands help offset the damaging effects of climate change. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In North Carolina, a Legal Fight Over Wetlands Protections

By Lisa Sorg

The water tower is a defining feature of the Bynum skyline and has stood for 75 years. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Effort to Save a Historic Water Tower Put Lead in this North Carolina Town’s Soil

By Lisa Sorg

Steel pipe sections of the Mountain Valley Pipeline during construction in Bent Mountain, Virginia, in August 2022. The pipeline became operational on Friday. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

A ‘Rights of Nature’ Tribunal Puts the Mountain Valley Pipeline on Trial

By Hannah Chanatry

An open-pit lagoon is filled with waste from a hog farm in Duplin County, North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of The Smell of Money

Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills

By Lisa Sorg

Children sit in the sand at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in the evening of July 23, 2023 to avoid the heat of the daytime. Credit: Madeline Gray for The Washington Post via Getty Images

As the Country Heats Up, ERs May See an Influx of Young Patients Struggling With Mental Health

By Jenaye Johnson

Muhammud Abu-Kass demonstrates how to work the training equipment at Guilford Tech Community College. The equipment trains him to be ready to work at Toyota’s first and only battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. Credit: Nicole Norman/Medill News Service

Toyota Opens a ‘Megasite’ for EV Batteries in a Struggling N.C. Community, Fueled by Biden’s IRA

By Nicole Norman

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