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Scientists and coastal advocates agree: Bulkheads are bad news for salt marshes.

Scientists and coastal advocates agree: Bulkheads are bad news for salt marshes.

2021 Climate Action Plan and UNC’s Journey to Renewables Story by    In August 2019, Lauren Ledford and her roommates moved into a house on Cameron Court, excited to start the new school year. A year later, they moved out because they didn’t like the neighbors. Or, more specifically, one neighbor – UNC-Chapel Hill’s cogeneration plant, which produces steam and electricity by burning coal and natural gas. For Ledford, an environmental studies major, living next to a coal-burning plant gave her “an uneasy feeling.” “I didn’t even know that the university had that until I moved...

UNC-Chapel Hill Stalls on Stopping Coal Use as the Climate Crisis Inches Closer to Catastrophe Illustration by Jon Fuller UNC-Chapel Hill’s Cameron Avenue coal plant—its smokestack, wires, and monstrous machinery—isn’t a relic of the past. It’s alive and burning tons of coal every day, while the university, in the meantime, is in another cycle of spin around its inadequate environmental promises. The university’s new Climate Action Plan, released in April, declares that the school will now aim to be emission-neutral—but not coal-free—by the year 2040. A...

When it comes to helping in the fight against climate change, reducing your carbon footprint is a regularly suggested tactic — both for individuals and organizations. Researchers at the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences are helping the University do just that with a blue carbon habitat in Morehead City. This human-made habitat collects and stores carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and serves as a carbon emission offset for Carolina, which is aiming to reach carbon neutrality by 2040. Headed by Professor Antonio Rodriguez, the project involved the creation of a saltmarsh with the intent of ca...