A Connecticut resident described bumblebees coming back to the same flower with insecticide on it: “it’s like they’re getting ...

Shamrock, with a facility in Browns Summit, is involved in handling 1,4-dioxane, a controversial synthetic industrial chemical that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified as a likely ...

Kip Tabb, an Outer Banks resident who reports for Coastal Review and other area publications, documents his walk along the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site's Freedom Trail, which is lined with ...

Several bills have been filed dealing with herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals that affect animals and, in some ...

The UNC system project allows researchers to study habitat changes from the mouth of the Cape Fear River to the Gulf Stream’s ...

Water quality levels in Sanford remain safe and unchanged after reports of elevated 1,4-dioxane levels in the North Carolina Piedmont, according to a release.

A new study has revealed that nearly a third of Americans are exposed to unregulated contaminants like PFAS in their drinking ...

Tests released February 7 by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) show that Asheboro has dumped extremely high ...

An upstream wastewater facility released record levels of a toxic chemical into the drinking water supply of the tri-county ...

Elevated levels of a potential cancer-causing chemical drained into the largest river basin in North Carolina earlier this year, according to state officials. The North Carolina Department of ...

Helping people be kinder to the planet, Clean People Laundry Detergent Sheets use plastic-free, paper packaging instead of ...

The Asheboro Wastewater Treatment Plant's 1,4-dioxane discharge reached 3,520 parts per billion—more than 10,000 times the chemical’s cancer risk threshold.