From a pollution-sensing bench to high tech monitoring devices, EPA researchers in Research Triangle Park are at the forefront of monitoring the nation’s air quality.

Our communities and even our society is becoming increasingly eco-conscious. From recycling and composting to electric - and even pedal-operated - vehicles, inventors and innovators are constantly coming up with new ways to be more eco-friendly. So what does that have to do with the ocean?.

Black sea bass is a valuable North Carolina seafood, but degrading coastal nurseries threaten the population.

North Carolina is the resting point for the tiny piping plover, which travels thousands of miles to winter in the Bahamas and nest in Canada. Organizations are coming together to track the birds and preserve their resting point on the NC coast.

New research suggests seniors with hearing loss are significantly more likely to develop dementia over time than those who retain their hearing.

Sargassum is the reddish brown grass that floats at sea and washes up on the beach. New research shows it is also a complex island community at sea that is essential to ocean habitats.

North Carolina is one of the most dangerous states for the number of lightning fatalities, but new research makes nature’s light show more predictable.

Biologic drugs are produced by living cells, making them challenging to develop and manufacture. Biogen has one of the largest biotechnology facilities in the country in Research Triangle Park.

Novozymes has developed a groundbreaking biogas plant that turns wastewater at its Franklinton plant into energy to help power the plant.

Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine are studying the ways in which brave cells communicate with each other. Their findings could lead to new methods in treating such mental disorders as depression and schizophrenia.