Residents in coastal areas told researchers, “It floods here all the time,” though weather forecasts often overlooked it.

Funding for proposed landslide mapping and mitigation programs has not been in the North Carolina budget since 2018.

Erosion and sea-level rise threaten the Hatteras Inlet ferry dock on the north end of Ocracoke Island as well as the highway that leads to it. The North Carolina Department of Transportation is ...

Erosion and sea-level rise threaten the Hatteras Inlet ferry dock on the north end of Ocracoke Island, as well as the highway that leads to it.

Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent ...

Scientists have increasingly used tide levels to predict flooding on the coast. But two North Carolina professors showed that ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied North Carolina's request for the agency to match 100% of the state funds for Helene cleanup, according to a letter sent from the acting FEMA ...

including the Down East region of North Carolina. Sea-level rise in this region threatens ducks and other migratory birds, The Assembly reported, along with the tradition of hunting them. However, ...

The cities include not just those on the coasts, where sea level rise is a concern, but many in the interior. Using high-resolution satellite-based measurements of land subsidence, researchers ...

Its collapse is something scientists fear because of the enormous sea level rise that would follow — estimates put the increase over two feet — and that's not the only worry. "The glacier acts like a ...

The data suggests that the combination of sea-level rise, reduced freshwater flow, and increasingly frequent storm surges are all contributing to the inland movement and retention of saltwater.

Eastern and coastal North Carolina are home to some truly enormous trees. Towering bald cypresses with buttressed trunks, ancient live oaks with branches spreading out almost endlessly. The kinds of ...