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This summer was hot. August shattered global heat records
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (757+ words) If you thought this summer felt hotter than normal, you were right. Temperatures around the world were unusually warm, surpassing several heat records, including in the U.S. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week announced that for the Lower 48 states,…...
This is how leaf pickup in Raleigh has changed
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (314+ words) The city of Raleigh is changing the way it picks up household leaf piles in 2026. As of September 8, residents will no longer have their loose leaf piles picked up by waste removal staff. There are now two ways to rid…...
Remediation of former landfill sites still in limbo despite yearslong parks closures
1+ mon, 5+ hour ago (1540+ words) The notation of a city incinerator on a 1937 map of Durham that hung in Daniel Richter’s lab was originally just a hint. Richter, a soils and forest ecology professor at Duke University, noticed that the waste-burning site had been at…...
How to watch the very small, very short partial solar eclipse in North Carolina this Wednesday
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (255+ words) For a brief few minutes on Wednesday, eastern and parts of central North Carolina will get to experience a partial solar eclipse. NASA, which will be live-streaming the eclipse, says that a total solar eclipse will be viewable in Greenland…...
Crews battle wildfires in western U.S. and Canada
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (500+ words) Evacuation orders are in place across parts of the Western U.S. and Southwest Canada as extremely hot and dry conditions fuel the spread of wildfires in the region. There were 183 new fires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the…...
NC State to celebrate NASA Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (236+ words) WUNC News NC State to celebrate NASA Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch After travelling around the moon and back, astronaut and three-time N.C. State University graduate Christina Koch will come back to the Raleigh university to celebrate her accomplishments. While orbiting…...
Thousands in France allowed to return home as Europe tackles wildfires and heatwave
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (666+ words) BORDEAUX, France — Firefighters in southwestern France said Friday they were working on four active hotspots as they tried to put out fires that ripped through 100,000 acres of forest, villages and farmland over the past week. Lt. Col. Eric Pitault, the…...
Death toll from southwestern Japan quake climbs to 34
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (560+ words) KUMAMOTO, Japan — The death toll climbed to 34 from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan that set off an explosion at a mall, toppled a factory chimney and flattened homes, the Kumamoto prefectural government said Friday. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Japan's…...
Video: Scientists watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (450+ words) "Don't play with your food" is a rule orcas don't seem to follow. Off the shores of Cabo San Lucas, Kathryn Ayres, a scientist at the ocean-health nonprofit Beneath The Waves, saw a surprising orca behavior: one orca holds a…...
What forecasters expect this hurricane season, as Tropical Storm Bertha edges along
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (447+ words) Tropical Storm Bertha is the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, and it's expected to track along the northern Gulf Coast for several days, hitting Gulf communities with up to four feet of storm surge and sustained winds…...