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44441
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"Falls Lake Serves as the site of a new approach to managing watershed health."
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44060
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"New findings about ground elevations at the coast confirm that the battle between land and sea has become increasingly one-sided -- and that an ecological transformation of coastal NC has begun." Recorded evidence already shows that a single foot in the rise of sea level is signaling an ecological transformation as marshes continue to migrate or disappear and wetlands move in to claim farmland. Conserving inland terrain will be critical in the time to come.
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44056
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"there has been a flurry of recent reports of blue land crabs in the Carolinas, which is north of the species' expected range. North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (NCDMF) biologists are requesting public assistance to help them learn more about where the species is spreading."
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44061
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"More than 90 percent of the warming we're seeing from human-caused greenhouse gasses goes into our oceans."
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44342
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"Seventy years ago, winds gusted to 90 mph in Raleigh, 110 mph in Fayetteville, and as high as 150 mph at the coast.' The author notes as the strongest hurricane based on the Saffir Simpson scale category, Hazel is an obvious benchmark on which all other storms are compared. It is possible, however, to have a Category-5 hurricane someday along North Carolina's coast.
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44343
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"She had torn the south-facing beaches of Brunswick County all to hell and gone, wrecking the crab-and-fish houses and putting great schooners up into yards in Southport, and thrown fishing boats onto main streets in Morehead City and Beaufort."
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44068
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Researchers investigate a sustainable alternative to harmful UV filters in sunscreens. A byproduct of fish bone, natural calcium phosphate was tested but did not beat zinc oxide on all levels of sustainability.
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44356
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Colleen Brow, the 2023-24 joint North Carolina Sea Grant and Space Grant Research Fellow and Ph.D. student began in her undergraduate years scanning sources of nutrient pollution in the lower Cape Fear River basin. with regard to concentrated animal feeding operations, her research found a correlation between the concentration of these facilities and areas with increased pollution.
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43712
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Off the shore of Hatteras Island in Dare County, North Carolina, there has long stood a mysterious ship that has welcomed locals, tourists, and scientists to its viewing. Nathan Richards, director of Maritime Studies at East Carolina University, and his team of graduate students have studied the wreckage, concluding that the mystery vessel was originally a Word War II gunboat.
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After Hurricane Florence, NC State University's School of Architecture assisted in providing affordable housing designs for Duffyfield's redevelopment project. The New Bern, North Carolina housing community also saw assistance from the North Carolina Sea Grant and students from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's capstone class.
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The Coastal Landscapes Initiative (CLI) has created a guide known as "Plant This Instead" to inform coastal property owners, landscapers, and designers about eco-harmful plants. The guide also provides readers on suggestions on alternative choices of beautiful "eco-friendly plants that may fill the the same purpose."
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Lab results from The Cape Fear River, in North Carolina, have shown that upstream alligators in Wilmington have an increased level of per-and-polyfluoroalkyl (a group of chemicals used to resist heat, oil, stains, and water). Researchers are worried about these reptiles becoming more susceptible to infections and unhealed lesions.
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43724
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Since the 1800's the Earth has seen a steady increase in global ocean temperatures. 2022 had the highest recorded temperature, contributing to the highest global sea level since modern recordkeeping began in 1955.
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43802
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"1996 marked and abrupt uptick in Hurricane Activity in coastal North Carolina, When tropical storm Arthur and Hurricanes Bertha and Fran made landfall within a few months of each other. A plan is currently in development for the city of New Bern to incorporate ecosystems services into flood resilience planning.
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43803
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"Sea Grant is among the funders on a 50-year study of salt marsh ecology that has concluded that more than 90% of the world's salt marshes could succumb to sea level rise by the end of the century. "
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