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Farmers Felt Hurricane Floyd’s Full Force, Beginning in Onslow County

Staff

Oct 22, 2019

Add ‘Pseudo-Thumb’ to the Aye-Aye Lemur’s Bizarre Anatomy

New York Times
“We’ve studied the function of those weird, spindly middle fingers so long that nobody ever looked at this kind of lowly structure on the wrist,” said Adam Hartstone-Rose, an anatomist at North Carolina State University who led the team that completed the research.
in Wilmington Beach, part of modern-day Carolina Beach, from Hazel.

Oct 15, 2019

Was Hazel North Carolina’s Worst-Case Hurricane?

No discussion about North Carolina's significant historical hurricanes is complete without including Hazel, which hit the state 65 years ago today.

Oct 4, 2019

Why Just Being in the Habitable Zone Doesn’t Make Exoplanets Livable

Science News
“The habitable zone is not the exclusive place where life might be,” says planetary geologist Paul Byrne of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “Those nuances are hardly ever conveyed when it’s utilized as a place to look for life.”

Sep 27, 2019

NASA Mars Mission Shocker: New Discovery on Red Planet Surprises Scientists

International Business Times
“We’re getting an insight into Mars’s magnetic history in a way we’ve never had before,” Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University who heard about the study, commented on the discovery.

Crews line up to restore power after Hugo. (Courtesy of Duke Energy Archives)

Sep 23, 2019

For Duke Energy, No Shelter From Hugo’s Storm

Thirty years ago, Hurricane Hugo tested nearly every aspect of infrastructure in the Carolinas.
A satellite image of Hurricane Hugo

Sep 23, 2019

How Howling Hugo Became the Western Piedmont’s Worst Hurricane

The N.C. Climate Office examines the monster 1989 storm's inland impact.

Sep 23, 2019

Self-Sterilizing Polymer Could Help Fight Superbugs

Medical Design and Outsourcing
North Carolina State University researchers reported over the summer that they have developed an elastic, self-sterilizing polymer able to kill a wide variety of superbugs, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Sep 22, 2019

Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered on Mars

National Geographic
“We’re getting an insight into Mars’s magnetic history in a way we’ve never had before,” says Paul Byrne, a planetary geologist at North Carolina State University who was not involved with the work.
The Tar River floods homes in Greenville after Floyd. (Image by Dave Saville/FEMA)

Sep 16, 2019

Hurricane Floyd’s Inundation Along the Tar River Spurred a Call to Action

In part 3 of a series from the North Carolina Climate Office, learn about the lasting impact of Hurricane Floyd.
Hogs atop a barn in Trenton, NC, after Hurricane Floyd. (Image from the Wilmington StarNews)

Sep 16, 2019

Farmers Felt Hurricane Floyd’s Full Force, Beginning in Onslow County

Learn how Hurricane Floyd devastated the state's agriculture sector in this blog post from the North Carolina Climate Office.