When it rains on your street or driveway, that water doesn’t go to a water treatment plant, but rather, it winds up in our streams and rivers. An upcoming snorkel trail aims to remind people why protecting these rivers is important and teach them about the critters that rely on clean water to live.

Statistically speaking, climate change isn’t on the tip of most North Carolinians’ tongues — not often, anyway. How do we change that?

Climate change and its cause — the burning of fossil fuels — are problems that surround us as much as, well, the air we breathe. A new book by the father of popular climate writing, Bill McKibben, offers a simple solution: harness the power of the sun.

As temperatures creep upward, people are making big life choices that factor in our warming climate. But few decide to paddle nearly 2,000 miles to the Gulf Coast because climate change interferes with their livelihoods.

The opening act for Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts is preaching the gospel of climate change and anti-consumerism during this year’s Love Earth tour. The American leg of their tour started last week in Charlotte.