Heat is the No.1 weather-related killer among humans in the United States. But how hot is too hot for pets?

The elevated numbers suggest the region’s economy continues to feel the impact from the historic storm.

About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.

Building, rehabilitating, instructing, developing, growing, employing. Those are the promises made by the BRIDGE program, which trains incarcerated young men to fight fires, among other skills. But does it hold true to those promises?

Attorneys with Zois and Miller, one of the firms representing victims who are suing the federal government and the Department of the Navy for damages connected to illnesses cause by toxic water aboard the base, said the federal court has ruled that experts can use established science to explain why contaminated water likely caused a claimant’s illness, but if a report tries to introduce new studies or exposure models that weren’t disclosed before last December, they’ll be excluded.

A dig in eastern North Carolina last week had a scientist up to his armpits in mud and led to some great finds for a museum collection, including fossils from the age of dinosaurs. The paleontologist that led the dig is also hoping to someday solve an enduring Onslow County fossil mystery.

The Trump administration has effectively eliminated two rules designed to promote cleaner cars. Now, as the EPA suggests not considering carbon dioxide to be pollution, the last rule is poised to fall.

UNC Charlotte senior Reniah Carroll launched her project to map waste bins in the Historic West End. She’s a fellow with Sol Nation, a nonprofit that advocates for environmental justice in communities of color.

Scattered storms and muggy nights continue across western North Carolina as forecasters eye a weekend cooldown.

As the climate warms, new data shows huge swaths of land across the globe are quickly drying, threatening humanity’s supply of fresh water.