4 min read NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with...
A report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation has identified nearly 65,000 “voters” who recently voted from the grave, another state, or from multiple addresses. After being provided the data and the names, the North Carolina Board of Elections responded, “blah, blah, blah” and then blamed county boards for all erroneous registrations. In 2020, President Donald...
In 2018, North Carolina voters said yes to a constitutional amendment requiring government photo ID to confirm voter identity. A left-wing grievance group pushed a lawsuit claiming “racial discrimination” and two Democrat judges overturned the will of the people. The state provides free ID. There are 8 million licensed drivers in NC and only 4.6 million people voted...
MORGANTON, N.C. — Experts from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C.-based national health advocacy organization, joined a North Carolina pediatrician in speaking at Burke County Public Schools board meeting on Monday, May 13, 2024, to urge officials there to accept a $4,000 grant to pilot two plant-based entrees in three of the...
In Our Peaceful Struggle — Anne C. Willett, 1976 How much longer must the residents (prisoners) of Women’s Correctional Center be held slaves of the state without any hope of release to freedom? We live in a capitalistic world wherein only the strong survive. For those of us who refuse to be stripped of our individuality, and who are bizarre and articulate...
NASA is set to begin launch operations mid-May for the 2024 Sweden Long-Duration Scientific Balloon Campaign. Four stadium-sized, scientific balloons carrying science missions and technology demonstrations are scheduled to lift off from Swedish Space Corporation’s Esrange Space Center, situated north of the Arctic Circle near Kiruna, Sweden. The campaign will...
This story was produced and published in partnership with Southerly. Sherri White-Williamson lives about three miles from a pork processing plant in Clinton, North Carolina. On a good day, the air smells fresh, tainted by a minor whiff of rotten egg and sewage. On a bad day, the odor from the plant is so strong, she has to keep her windows closed. The smell wafts...
Georgia voters cast their ballots and made a clear decision in the 2020 election, which ended on November 3rd. On this week’s episode of As The South Votes, voting rights activist Sara Ghazal joins us to talk about Georgia’s election and post-election audit undertaken by the secretary of state. Sara explains that what has been referred to as a hand...
This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. This article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. Michele Coble of Lincolnton has a strong opinion about the Jan. 6 mob riot at the U.S. Capitol. “I think that’s the craziest...
Home to Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Rapsody, and J Cole, North Carolina’s musical legacy is rooted in activism. Even hip-hop’s newest Carolinian chart-topping trap rapper DaBaby has embraced rap as a medium to address racial injustices in America by sharing his personal challenges with law enforcement. Despite our state’s rich...