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44591
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The project was assisted with a grant from the NC Department of Justice's Ecosystem Enhancement grant, the City of Raleigh's Stormwater Department and Raleigh Arts, the City's public arts division. At Biltmore Hills Park, control measures include a bioretention area, swale along with two cisterns treating runoff, highly visible at the Biltmore Hills Community Center. Another bioretention and stabilized roadway are now in place at the park entrance.
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44592
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Meghan Agresto along with partner Luis Garcia have been lighthouse keepers for Currituck Beach Lighthouse for 20 years now. This lighthouse is currently the only North Carolina lighthouse with an acting keeper and family. The duo is also among the longest serving keepers in the beacon's history.
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44608
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"A Killer Whale, also known as an Orca, was spotted off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Back in mid-March (2025). This was the first sighting in five years of a Killer Whale in the area, renewing interest in the complex - and largely unknown - migration patterns of the species."
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44632
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Coastal communities are at greater risk to adverse effects of stormwater runoff due to extreme storms. sea level and tides. Some solutions for addressing the problem in communities involve incorporating language in HOA covenants; designation of an area in a community to become a natural stormwater management area and the use of barrels and cisterns around community buildings.
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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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