Exploring North Carolina 2013 | UNC-TV Podcast
1) North Carolina's Two Coasts Part 2
A two-part episode which probes the natural forces that created our state’s coastline and the human impact on its future. Tom's interviews coastal specialists Dorothea Ames & Stan Riggs.
2) North Carolina's Two Coasts Part 1
A two-part episode which probes the natural forces that created our state’s coastline and the human impact on its future. Tom's interviews coastal specialists Dorothea Ames & Stan Riggs.
3) Cafeteria Line
Spartina marshes behind our barrier islands--once considered wastelands--are now believed to be the most valuable and productive lands in North Carolinas. The marshes are nursery, storm buffer, and th...Show More
4) Living Collections
At the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences there are year-round collections of living things...20-year old snakes, 12-year old salamanders, rare turtles, seldom-seen fish, native moths, and gian...Show More
5) Where Rivers are Born
Brownwater rivers are those that begin in the mountains and Piedmont and transport silt and clay particles. Blackwater rivers are generally short, slow-moving rivers that emerge from pocossins in our ...Show More
6) Highway to the Future
North Carolina has its own version of the Appalachian Trail – the Mountains to the Sea Trail. It offers hikers a magnificent 1,000-mile adventure beginning at the Tennessee border and then passes thro...Show More
7) Native Intelligence
Wherever you go in North Carolina you will find a blanket of greenery – trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses. Much of the greenery, especially in our urban areas, is comprised of ornamental alien speci...Show More
8) Salamanders as Canaries
Coal miners once carried caged canaries to detect detect dangerous gases deep underground. The small caged birds--environmental indicators--served as an early warning of problems. North Carolina is fo...Show More
9) History and Future of Water... in North Carolina
With 17 river basins, all with an average of more than 40 inches of rain per year, North Carolina is extremely fortunate. Yet until the last half of the 20th century, many of our rivers were badly pol...Show More
10) In Perfect Harmony: Camp Lejeune
The facilities at Camp Lejeune include beaches, pine forests, and wetlands. This legendary Marine Corps training facility is also home to a corps of conservation professionals who oversee natural reso...Show More