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Hunting can slow chronic wasting disease. But could it increase human risk? (opens the original)
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Chronic wasting disease outlives the deer it kills. Wildlife managers have culled entire deer herds and waited as long as six years before reintroducing animals to affected areas – only to see the disease return. That's because the particles that cause chronic wasting disease persist in the soil, where they're taken up by plants and passed back to the deer that eat them, says Miranda Turner, a wildlife biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. Wildlife officials working to
A 2,000-year-old Roman statue gets a new arm and a closer look (opens the original)
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Stand in front of the Bacchus statue for long enough, and he appears on the verge of speech. Though he never quite achieves it, curator Caroline Rocheleau doesn’t point at Bacchus as though he is an inanimate object. Rocheleau has looked after the statue through his most recent conservation undertaking at the North Carolina Museum of Art, a project that took seven-years. In spite of this thorough investigation, Bacchus retains the enigmatic quality that has driven so many historians to obsess ov
A former missile plant is getting its toxic waste cleaned up. Thousands of other sites aren’t so lucky (opens the original)
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Rows of low-lying brick buildings and corrugated tin bungalows crowd a 32-acre property in east Burlington. Photos from the 1990s reveal a silver water tower and pristine pipes glowing white in the sun. Now, these structures are rust-red. This is the former Tarheel Army Missile Plant, or TAMP. A vestigial organ of Cold War-era military manufacturing, it has changed hands several times since the Department of Defense auctioned it off to a private buyer in the early 2000s. For the past three decad
Emily Putnam (opens the original)
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Emily Putnam is WUNC's 2026 AAAS Mass Media Fellow. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in microbial biology before interning at KERA in Dallas, where she covered arts and culture and supported a daily talk show. Her reporting and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Glasstire, California Magazine, and other publications. Write to Emily at eputnam@wunc.org or contact her via Signal at egp.06
'Constructing a tree museum': NC program rehabilitates man-made lakes with the help of volunteers (opens the original)
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On a pontoon boat on Oak Hollow Lake in Guilford County, Daniel Morrill gently removed a leech from his leg. He and a few volunteers had just slipped out of waist-deep murky water, shedding sturdy gloves and wringing out their shirts. Morrill is a fisheries biologist with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. He was planting spatterdock, a leafy, half-submerged aquatic plant. Planting spatterdock requires some digging and splashing. Despite the soft earth under the lake, it’s difficu
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