Duke Energy ordered to relocate all coal ash to lined landfills in NC
Earlier this week, the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that Duk...
Report confirms the endangered red wolf is its own distinct species
The wolf taxonomy committee of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medici...
88 pounds of plastic found in stomach of dead whale
A young Cuvier’s beaked whale was found on the coast of the Philippines last week weak and vomiting bloo...
Let’s stop talking about climate change in the future tense. Climate change is happening here and now, right in our Blue Ridge backyard.
The floods caught e...
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians can once again harvest sochan in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A historic signing of an agreement at the Oconaluftee ...
The $23 million road to nowhere in Rocky Fork
Rocky Fork State Park is Tennessee’s wildest state park—and one of the wildest spots in all of Southern Appala...
From Industry to Recreation: Turning Rails into Trails
Born and raised in Southwest Virginia, Eva Beaule’s family depended on tobacco agriculture for income...
Search and Rescue leader Andrew Herrington throws his students into icy creeks and teaches them how to save themselves. Our travel editor Ellen Kanzinger signe...
The comfort of home waters for fly fishing companions
"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in ...
An internet challenge that puts a smile on yours and Mother Nature's face - and it all started in our neck of the woods
Internet Challenges can sometimes ca...
No Man’s Land Film Festival, the premier all-women adventure film festival, is coming to Western North Carolina for the second year in a row. The festival feat...
Bent Creek Road in Pisgah Forest, NC closed for temporary maintenance
The Pisgah Ranger District has closed a section of Bent Creek Road from Ledford Branch...
Cancer causing pellets are being dropped along the Mountain Valley Pipeline path in WV
Pellets used to prevent erosion and provide soil stabilization have b...
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s $25 billion budget includes a line item that could impact the state’s wind energy future. The proposal asks for $300,000 t...
