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Temperature Check: Marine Life, Wastewater, and Oysters
Send us a text In this episode of Temperature Check: Coastal Edition, host Natalia Sanchez Loayza dives beneath the surface to explore how climate change is disrupting marine life and infrastructure along North Carolina’s coast. She’s joined by Dr. Jane Harrison, an environmental economist...
A Store of Our Own: Northside’s Fight for Food Justice”
Send us a text In this episode of Shoreside, host Nicholas Merino explores the long-standing struggle for food access in Wilmington’s Northside neighborhood—classified by the USDA as a food desert. But as guest Sierra Washington, Executive Director of the Northside Food Co-Op, explains, “desert”...
Temperature Check: Understanding Life in a Warming Coastal Region
Send us a text In this introductory episode of Temperature Check: Coastal Edition, hosted by Natalia Sanchez Loayza, we explore the impacts of extreme heat in coastal North Carolina. Natalia speaks with Jordan Clark, a climatologist and senior policy associate at the Heat Policy...
Will We See the Next NC Hurricane Coming?
According to research conducted by Shoresides, the National Weather Service Office in Wilmington, North Carolina, which played a pivotal role in predicting and tracking Hurricane Florence in 2018, may now be understaffed. In this episode of Storm Stories, we hear from the meteorologist at...
Defunded: Youth Violence Prevention Cut in Robeson County
Send us a text In Robeson County, North Carolina—home to some of the state’s highest youth violence rates—community-led prevention efforts were working. Until they weren’t. In this episode of Shoresides, host Nicolas Magrino speaks with Paul Smokowski, founding executive director of the North Carolina...
Thinking of Eating Fish From the Cape Fear River? Don’t…
Send us a text In this episode of Shoresides, we follow a community-led effort to uncover chemical contamination, protect public health, and rethink how we communicate environmental risk in places where food insecurity runs deep. Read more about this issue: Subsistence Fish Consumption on...
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