Tag: North Carolina
Shipwrecks teem with underwater life, from microbes to sharks
Avery Paxton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they...
Who owns the beach? It depends on state law and tide...
Thomas Ankersen, University of Florida
As Americans flock to beaches this summer, their toes are sinking into some of...
Some coastal areas are more prone to devastating hurricanes – a...
Athena Masson, University of Florida
Every coastline in the North Atlantic is vulnerable to tropical storms, but some areas...
Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating...
Emily Ury, Duke University
Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I...
How much credit should corporations get for the advancement of LGBTQ...
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
Gay pride parades increasingly include marchers representing corporations, from defense contractor Raytheon to telecommunications conglomerate Comcast. During the most recent Pride...
More frequent and intense tropical storms mean less recovery time for...
Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tropical cyclones – storms that bring strong, rotating winds and rain, and which can intensify into...
4 tips for selecting charities after disasters like Hurricane Dorian
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Hurricane Dorian’s destruction in the Bahamas, North Carolina and up the Atlantic coast provides a terrible...
A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South
Jordan Brasher, University of Tennessee and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
An estimated 114 Confederate symbols have been removed from public view since 2015....
EXPLORING NATURE
In Disney’s ‘Moana,’ the characters navigate using the stars, just like...
Christopher Palma, Penn State
If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter...
