NC’s biggest utility is among 10 companies that have written to Trump’s new EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, asking for relief from a key Biden emissions rule, as well as coal ash disposal requirements.

2024 had slightly above average rainfall, but the climate office reports that is largely due to a few major rain events rather than steady rain throughout the year.

Climate issues are taking center stage in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene wreaked catastrophic damage in western North Carolina at the end of last September.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) announced they have received a $1.5 million grant to fund coastal research. According to a press release from UNCW, the grant is meant to fund the TEAL-SHIPS Transect Expedition, a project to study coastal land-to-sea habitats.

North Carolina’s temperatures have increased over the past 120 years, endangering campus wildlife. Different individuals and groups work to promote sustainability and the environment on campus.

It blew down an estimated 187,000 acres of forests in Western North Carolina. In 2022, the Biden administration issued an executive order to protect old-growth forests on public land from the effects of climate change. The Forest Service then got to work ...

The rate of global warming per decade since 1982 is 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit. There are many factors that cause climate change, and in Charlotte, there is a glaring correlation between environment and social inequality. Depending on where you live, exposure to pollution and extreme weather results in different outcomes.

The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced the new rates last Friday. The insurance industry says inflation and climate change are driving up costs.

Last week, while visiting areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene in my home state of North Carolina, President Donald Trump proposed “getting rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Then he signed an executive order establishing a task force to decide the agency's fate.

Ajith Varikuti designed a modular home that withstands hurricanes, winning $10,000 in Autodesk’s 2024 Make it Resilient contest.

More than 200 NASA staff lost homes in the LA fires. Their tragedies bring a personal perspective to rising global climate risks.

How do warming arctic temperatures and a wavier jet stream combine to create snowfall across South Carolina? It's complicated.