Dave Shaw

Oct 16, 2024

Mapping the Impacts of North Carolina’s Poultry Industry 

How might poultry farms, raising anywhere from 20,000 to 1.5 million chickens at a time, affect nearby communities? How do concentrated animal feeding operations and their waste, an estimated 2.5 billion pounds annually for chickens alone, impact our state’s waterways? How has the rapid expansion of this industry over the last few decades compounded these problems?

Oct 16, 2024

Tracking Loggerheads

Satellite tagging on Bald Head Island reveals that loggerheads cover long distances up and down the East Coast — and beyond.

Oct 16, 2024

Plastic from the Mountains to the Sea

Researchers and community members join forces on plastic pollution in North Carolina.

Oct 14, 2024

The Catastrophic Power of Hurricane Helene

Only six years separate Florence and Helene, but these “once-in-a-thousand-year” hurricanes have much in common. Along with other storms that have hit our state, Helene offers lessons — and a warning.

Oct 1, 2024

The Guide to Coastal Living

Here's what to do -- and what not to do -- before and after a major storm.

Sep 18, 2024

The Undersea Vision of Fabien Cousteau

PROTEUS™ — the undersea equivalent of the International Space Station — will speed scientific discovery and spur medical breakthroughs. 

Sep 17, 2024

Hurricane Hazel 

Author Bland Simpson offers a boyhood recollection of Hurricane Hazel 70 years after the storm struck North Carolina.

Aug 21, 2024

Mariner’s Menu

Recipes for Butter Shrimp, Southern Crab Cakes, Grilled Tuna with Lime Butter, and Sautéed Flounder Amandine.

Jul 31, 2024

1,000 More Miles

NOAA and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have been working with Duke Energy on major upgrades to fish passage facilities along hydropower dams in North Carolina. These upgrades are reopening access to hundreds of miles of upstream spawning and rearing habitat for American eel, American shad, and blueback herring.

Jul 22, 2024

Hurricane Season Is Here

New guidance from NOAA advises people not to focus on a specific storm category. A storm’s “scale” only reflects the strongest winds near the center of the storm — not potentially life-threatening flooding from storm…