Kyle Constable, Author at The Assembly NC

No Safe Haven

Debris from a house that burned to the ground in the Poplar Drive Fire. (Mike Belleme for The Assembly)

As more people move to “climate havens” like Western North Carolina, they are learning nowhere is immune from a changing climate.

Signage outside the Duke Energy's corporate headquarters in Charlotte. (Aaron M. Sprecher via AP)

Duke is leaning on advanced but unproven nuclear technology to decarbonize. Environmentalists say that will delay climate goals.

Ben Salas was a standout athlete and student at North Carolina State University. (Photo courtesy of the Salas family)

Ben Salas was one of seven N.C. State students who ended their lives last academic year. His devastated family has no idea why.

Duke Energy's microgrid project in Hot Springs. (Photo courtesy of Duke Energy)

Duke Energy has billed a new $14.5 million microgrid project in Hot Springs as a leap forward. But will it lead to greater grid resilience?

A Lumberton resident surveys the rising water on Sept. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Climate change is making life along the Lumber River more uncertain. But for many people, moving isn’t a meaningful option.

Taj Bibi Ahmad Zai and her newborn daughter. (Andrea Bruce for The Assembly)

Ainzargul Totakhil fled Afghanistan, but died while driving for Uber in Durham. Now his family is picking up the pieces.

The USS North Carolina sits along the Cape Fear River. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

America’s most-decorated WWII battleship helped win the war in the Pacific. Can the USS North Carolina survive climate change?

Reaves Chapel in Navassa. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

What can be done to protect and preserve the fractured remnants of southeast North Carolina’s rich Gullah Geechee heritage?

A female black bear wanders up to a garden in Swannanoa. (Mike Belleme for The Assembly)

As ursine and human populations collide, state agencies are dealing with the limits of education and management.