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Creature Feature: Conan O’Brien Worms, Sea Dragons, and Ocean Aliens

Dave Shaw

Jun 26, 2024

How Would a Nuclear War Affect Our Climate and Oceans?

Many nations with nuclear weapons have embarked on plans to modernize or expand their nuclear arsenals. The presence of over 13,000 such weapons creates a risk that unstable leaders, hackers,…

Jun 24, 2024

Climate Change, Summertime, and Your Health

Global warming impacts human health. Share these resources and help spread awareness.
mountains and a glacier

Mar 27, 2024

Ice to Ocean

As glaciers melt and seas rise, new findings about ground elevations at the coast confirm that the battle between land and sea has become increasingly one-sided — and that an ecological transformation of coastal NC has begun.
image: blue land crab emerging from hole.

Mar 26, 2024

What’s the Deal with that Big Blue Crab on the Beach?

A new species has arrived in North Carolina — and you might even find one in your garage.
image: Surf City aerial view.

Mar 26, 2024

Can Fish Bones Protect Us from the Sun?

Researchers investigate a sustainable alternative to harmful UV filters in sunscreens.
image: graphic of a magnifying glass over water with bubbles that say "PFAS".

Mar 26, 2024

Emerging Contaminants: Mystery in the Cape Fear

New testing reveals eight previously unrecorded forms of PFAS

Mar 26, 2024

Are Fishing and Boating Regulations Protecting Endangered Whales?

The North Atlantic right whale is a critically endangered species, with fewer than 400 estimated alive today. Two leading causes of right whale mortality are fishing gear and vessels.
image: flooded residential street at sunset.

Mar 26, 2024

Sunny with a Chance of Floods

When people see photos of Carolina Beach’s flooded Canal Drive, they might assume those waters lapping against the doorways of a residential neighborhood mean the area had just experienced a severe storm or hurricane. Locals know, however, it is just as likely the deluge was not related to a storm at all but rather an example of “nuisance” flooding.
image: bow of a sailboat heads towards a cloudy horizon.

Mar 26, 2024

The Straits by Skipjack

From the short dock along Lida Pigott’s cut in Gloucester off the north side of The Straits, on as blustery a Sunday summer afternoon as one might want, the 28-foot skipjack Natty Lou headed out, her mainsail reefed.
image: parasitic worm and lobster eggs.

Mar 25, 2024

Creature Feature: Conan O’Brien Worms, Sea Dragons, and Ocean Aliens

Recent research from the Caribbean to the U.K. to Antarctica proves the ocean contains no shortage of curiosities.