environment

This week, WHQR is exploring the growth and impact of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in our series "CAFO Country." As we reported, eastern North Carolina is a national leader for hog and poultry operations, which bring billions of dollars to the state. Today, reporter David Boraks tours the front lines where neighbors worry about air and water quality. And he hears from industry officials who argue that North Carolina has some of the strictest rules in the country.

The overwhelming majority of climate scientists, international governmental bodies, and research institutes all agree: climate change is real. And with…

In Navassa, between the Brunswick River and Navassa Road, there’s a Superfund site. It sits behind a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and no…

Bald Head Island sits on the East side of the Cape Fear River – at the confluence of the river and the Atlantic ocean. It is one of the wealthier…