Recent News
• Fossil Fuels Are Hiding All Over Your House. We Built a Model Home to Show How.
• Great Waste in the Great Lakes: How Plastic Pollution is Clogging Our Waters
•Town Leaders Chided Residents For Warning of Flash Floods. Then, the River Took Two Children.
• Trump Vowed to Stop an ‘energy emergency.’ Then He Created a Real One.
North Carolina Again?
East Carolina University (ECU) sits in the Tar River watershed and close to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is no surprise, then, that water, in all its forms, is a major concern and that coastal studies, water quality, climate change, and oceanography are among the subjects that stand out on campus.
Florida, Rachel Carson and the Birds
The long, frigid winter and the political climate in Washington has driven me to flee south to Florida, not to Mar-a-Lago, but to visit my wife’s sister, a birder and nature lover, who lives in Clearwater Beach along the Gulf Coast.
Trump Just Effectively Killed a Popular Solar Energy Program For Rural America
Solar panels can be an economic lifeline for farmers. Now they’re going to be a lot harder to build.
The Hidden History of How Big Oil Invented the American Dream
The Lobe Rangers are calling out what Big Ag’s dated practices are doing to profit margins, water quality, and their families’ health.
The Sense of Wonder, and the Will to Act at Yale
Rain swept across Yale University’s historic campus on October 16th, as the first colors of autumn brightened the trees lining New Haven’s streets. Beneath the changing leaves and Gothic architecture, students gathered for an afternoon and evening devoted to turning concerns about environmental advocacy and policy into meaningful change.