Environment

Giant 'Pac-Man' Launched To Gobble Garbage Patch

5:21pm September 16, 2018

Last Saturday, the nonprofit Ocean Cleanup dispatched a device to help clean up litter in the Pacific Ocean. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Boyan Slat, the young CEO who came up with the idea.

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Rains From Florence Cause Collapse At NC Coal Ash Landfill

8:53am September 16, 2018

by The Associated Press, Michel Biesecker

Governor Cooper Warns Of Potential Landslides In Western NC

12:58pm September 15, 2018

by Eddie Garcia

Governor Roy Cooper says more people now face imminent threat than when Florence, now a tropical storm, was offshore.

Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge sits on land surrounding the famous Rocky Flats Nuclear Reservation that produced nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

A New Wildlife Refuge On The Grounds Around An Old Nuclear Weapons Plant

8:26am September 15, 2018

by Dan Boyce

Land around the shuttered weapons production facility in Colorado known as Rocky Flats is slated to reopen today as a wildlife refuge. But some are questioning whether it's too soon to be safe.

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Candace and Lawanda Jones are taking shelter at Conway High School in Conway, S.C.

Florence Evacuees Face Four Nights In A Shelter, And No End In Sight

9:46pm September 14, 2018

Residents who evacuated early in the week have already been sleeping in shelters for days. But Tropical Storm Florence still has days of rain and wind to go.

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Did Cape Town Learn From 'Day Zero'?

7:38pm September 14, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Cape Town, South Africa, averted the "Day Zero" water crisis that made headlines earlier this year, but is the close call enough to change the city's water consumption habits?

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Hurricane Florence: Rescue Efforts Underway In North Carolina

7:21pm September 14, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Chris Coudriet, county manager for New Hanover County, about the rescue efforts underway in and around Wilmington, N.C.

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Caught In Hurricane Florence's Path

6:49pm September 14, 2018

Hurricane Florence made landfall on the North Carolina coast early Friday morning. NPR hears from residents who witnessed the storm's damage.

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Cajun Navy Rescue Efforts Underway In The Carolinas

5:31pm September 14, 2018

Todd Terrell, founder and president of the United Cajun Navy joins NPR's Ari Shapiro to talk about the volunteer group's rescue efforts underway in the Carolinas.

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Typhoon Heads Towards The Philippines

5:25pm September 14, 2018

by Julie McCarthy

A massive typhoon is headed towards northern Thailand, expected to make landfall today.