A new interdisciplinary program in Environment, Ecology and Energy, E3P, will leverage the College’s strengths in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to teach students how to best manage resources in an ever-changing world. Greg Gangi started the UNC Clean … Continued

Hurricane Florence did a lot of visible damage to North Carolina with its wind and rain, but its invisible impact is one that lingers on and affects the lives of many North Carolinians. North Carolina is fifth on the list … Continued

New research shows that although retention ponds may look nice above the water, they aren’t working the way they are supposed to underwater. The video features UNC IE Director Michael Piehler and Communications Intern Peggy Mullin. Retention ponds are pretty … Continued

Don’t drink the well water. That might well be the warning notice left by Hurricane Florence. Contamination of private water wells in North Carolina has spiked in the aftermath of the storm whose flood waters spread raw sewage, farm animal … Continued

The number of air-pollution-related deaths in the United States plunged by almost half in the two decades following passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, amounting to about 71,000 by 2010, according to estimates in a newly released study. … Continued

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill professors David Salvesen and Todd BenDor recently published a study investigating local governments’ decisions. When a government decides to participate in a buyout and is left with homeowners in a floodplain who decide to … Continued

When Meredith Emery photographed geography researchers conducting fieldwork, she couldn’t believe what she saw — a slew of litter along streambeds and forest lines. Now she’s sharing these images through a multimedia project blending art and science in an effort … Continued

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill researchers Todd BenDor and David Salvesen, who recently published a report on buyouts that looked at strategies and tracked what happened to properties in eight North Carolina communities, said the impact of Hurricane Florence … Continued

Twenty-five UNC-Chapel Hill students spent six weeks this summer navigating Germany, Spain and Denmark—and never set foot in a car. “I wanted them to experience what it was like to be able to walk out your door and either walk, … Continued

In response to requests from state and local partners following Hurricane Florence, the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (UNC CEHS) has compiled a list of online environmental health resources to assist communities who are recovering and rebuilding. The … Continued