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A North Carolina farm family who lost tens of thousands of Christmas trees to Helene will celebrate their own Christmas with a five-foot "hurricane tree" that's "perfect for us this year."

Timbermill Wind in Chowan County includes 45 turbines spread out across more than 6,000 acres. The project is expected to produce clean energy and provide an economic boom to the region.

A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The eastern hellbender would be protected under the Endangered Species Act if Friday's submission is adopted.

Microplastics are polluting western North Carolina watersheds

Reporter Jane Winik Sartwell talks about Helene's toll on crops, farms, and farmers in North Carolina.

Ryan Emanuel is a member of the Lumbee Tribe and a professor of hydrology at Duke University. He talks with Jeff Tiberii about his book, On the Swamp, in a wide-ranging and also personal conversation about land and water in what is now eastern North Carolina.

There are three groundwater standards for PFAS under consideration. Public comment overwhelmingly supports the proposed regulations, but is also pushing for more action.

Three proponents of "leaving the leaves" make their case, plus an environmental historian shares stories of the longleaf pine and the bald cypress, two trees entwined in the history of the South.

A group of researchers and volunteers mapped urban hotspots across 100 square miles of Charlotte.

Mobile wastewater units bridge the gap as the town brings its damaged sewage treatment plant back online.