Climate Change

An abandoned CMS building has become a battleground between the city, nature conservationists and local parents trying to balance the need too keep a school safe with the need to save a key home for hard-pressed birds.

The Trump administration is repealing federal protections that would expose about 144,000 acres of protected forests to logging and development in North Carolina. Tuesday is the last day for public comment.

The visit comes one week after the Environmental Protection Agency rolled back greenhouse gas regulations on American power plants.

A new report from NPR and Boston University suggests that the average number of heat-related deaths in North Carolina each year is almost 18 times what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recorded.

A concert in Yancey County gave Hurricane Helene survivors an opportunity to share their experiences with the storm.

A group of Yancey and Mitchell county musicians held a concert Friday night to commemorate the second anniversary of Hurricane Helene.

North Carolina’s state wildlife agency is stocking fewer trout this fall. That’s bad news for the hundreds of thousands of people who flock to western North Carolina to fish.

City Council member Kimberly Owens proclaimed in Monday’s City Council meeting that the spring and fall seasons are “Bird Safe Awareness Months,” encouraging residents and businesses to turn out nonessential lights between 11 p.m. and 6 p.m. while birds migrate overhead.

A group of students, parents and energy experts is making the financial case for going green in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

County staff presented a new sustainability report for the last fiscal year. The report highlighted several successes, including the expansion of county recycling programs and air quality compliance.