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Jul 31, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

SHARKS AND SHIPWRECKS

Divers from East Carolina University and its Coastal Studies Institute, North Carolina Aquariums, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration recently deployed acoustic receivers on shipwrecks off the North Carolina...

Jul 31, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

SHARING THE SEAS

Dr. Charles Bangley, postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and an ECU alumnus, emphasized that shark attacks are very rare, and credits the extra attention they have received...

Third-generation farmer Archie Griffin works on his family’s farm in Washington, North Carolina.
Jun 21, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

THE EFFECT

On the rare occasions when farmers are able to leave their land, they are never truly separated from their farms. “They’re usually going to a farm organization meeting, a farm...

Third-generation farmer Archie Griffin works on his family’s farm in Washington, North Carolina.
Jun 21, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

THE SCOPE

The stresses facing North Carolina’s farmers are not unique, which is why officials at the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute hope that the statewide work they are doing will one day...

Third-generation farmer Archie Griffin works on his family’s farm in Washington, North Carolina.
Jun 21, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

THE CRISIS

Farmers also faced a crisis in the 1980s when the interest rates for operating or purchasing farmland skyrocketed but land values failed to increase as part of the lending calculations....

Third-generation farmer Archie Griffin operates a combine on his family’s farm in Washington, North Carolina.
Jun 21, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

THE STRESS

Griffin Farms, Inc. is an 1,800-acre, family-owned farm on the outskirts of Washington, North Carolina, that grows tobacco, corn, wheat and soybeans. The farm employs 16 workers, but on a...

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