Environment Archives - The Mecklenburg Herald

The Nation’s Biggest Electric Capacity Market Needs Fixing, Critics Say

The nation’s largest grid operator is warning that it might not have enough electric generation in the future to guarantee reliability.

NC’s Black Farmers Can’t Find Affordable Land

With the cost of farmland up by more than 8% percent in North Carolina, the state’s Black farmers are struggling to purchase additional acreage or jumpstart their farming dreams.

North Carolina Seeks Input from Residents on Advanced Clean Trucks Rule

Trucks and buses make up around 3% of road traffic, but emit 26% of North Carolina’s smog and 32% percent of particulate matter and other hazardous air pollutants.

Endangered Green Salamanders in Need of Protection

They’re elusive, colorful, covered in mucus, and an integral part of the local ecosystem currently threatened with extinction.

Why Fusion Ignition Is Being Hailed as a Major Breakthrough in Fusion – A Nuclear Physicist Explains

Fusion is a nuclear reaction that combines two atoms to create one or more new atoms with slightly less total mass.

A Closer Look at the Problem of Contaminated Drinking Water Wells in NC

Under a special state fund 658 drinking water wells were sampled for contamination, many of them in Wake County

Over $17 Million in Grants Awarded to Improve North Carolina State Parks

The North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund (PARTF) awarded over $17 million in grants to fund nearly 40 local parks and recreation projects in the state.

Tropical Depression Nicole Brings Snow, Heavy Rain, Icy Temperatures

Hurricanes seldom make landfall on the East Coast in November, but a Category 1 hurricane in Florida did just that, and what was left of the storm has made it to the Carolinas, bringing heavy precipitation and cold weather.