The NOAA grant is in response to rising concerns over extreme heat events and their widespread impacts in rural, coastal ...

Duke’s climate and sustainability VP talks about a new report on the university’s climate efforts, navigating changes in ...

From the Kentucky floods to Helene and back again, people throughout Appalachia are using their experiences to help each ...

The U.S. Forest Service stewards 193 million acres of public lands from Alaska to Florida. So why is it so overworked and understaffed?

Natural disasters, amplified by climate change, reveal and amplify social inequalities, leaving the poorest and most valuable communities to suffer the most. Here’s how the Kansas City metro is prepar ...

“If the administration begins to take measures that see a de-prioritization of renewable energy and different investments ...

Chaewon Chung covers climate change and the environment in the Triad and Northwest North Carolina. Her work is funded by a grant from the Green South Foundation and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

Duke is on a mission to do all of this — and more.

Helene wiped out hundreds of roadways. Now, engineers are working to fill in the holes it left behind. And in places like Chimney Rock Nathan Moneyham: The whole thing's a big hole. Anisa Khalifa: But ...

Federal prosecutors say three members of the City Council in South Carolina’s third-largest city accepted kickbacks and bribes to give out grant money and rezone land or lied about what they knew ...

A bill to ban balloon releases is currently in the North Carolina State Senate. Supporters of the bill say it’s a step in the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson twists enough arms. But, Eric Garcia warns, the internal disputes between House and Senate ...