5+ hour, 3+ min ago   (518+ words) Throughout her life, Yonnie loved hanging out with Kodiak — whether they were exploring, sunbathing, tree-lounging or splashing around in the pond. As a younger bear, she was known to pick on the other bears and hide behind Kodiak for protection…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (341+ words) Coastal geologist Stan Riggs surveys recent storm damage in Rodanthe on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. North Carolina’s developed barrier islands, an unstable string of pearls woven into the fabric of the state’s coastal economy, now find many of those individual…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (194+ words) Eastern North Carolina needs a Farm Bill that supports farmers, lowers food costs, strengthens rural communities, and protects families. Instead, this partisan bill is loaded with harmful provisions that put corporate interests ahead of people, animals, and the states that…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (991+ words) After taking measurements and samples for her Carolina chickadees study, ECU doctoral candidate Susannah Halligan places each baby bird back in the nest. Halligan says she chose Carolina chickadees for her study because they aren’t as skittish around humans as…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (793+ words) Noctourism has grown in recent years. Tourists now book northern lights trips, nighttime safaris and visits to dark sky parks. For the last two years, the aurora borealis has been more visible than usual, and this year, the total solar…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (189+ words) Eastern North Carolina needs a Farm Bill that supports farmers, lowers food costs, strengthens rural communities, and protects families. Instead, this partisan bill is loaded with harmful provisions that put corporate interests ahead of people, animals, and the states that…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (405+ words) Some cats were protesting and carrying signs outside a church. Two priests stood on the steps with puzzled looks on their faces. The spokes-feline announced, “We feel it would be much more appropriate if the Supreme Being became known as…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (302+ words) The Great Smoky Mountains National Park entrance. A grisly investigation is underway in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, after nearly three dozen federally protected birds were killed and “dumped” along a scenic parkway, according to the National Park Service. The…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (410+ words) Project FeederWatch, a citizen science project where participants collect data on birds at their feeders, was founded in Ontario by Erica Dunn and the Long Point Bird Observatory in 1976. The project partnered with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology after 10 years…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1156+ words) Roxie Laybourne spent four decades in ornithology, becoming an expert at feather identification. Before Laybourne became a pioneer in science, she grew up in Farmville and attend Raleigh’s Meredith College. Roxie Laybourne lived the kind of life that would make…...