Long before Duplin and Sampson counties became the epicenter of North Carolina’s hog farming industry, Roberta McCalop’s family owned 42 acres of farmland on a dead-end road a stone’s throw from the county line.
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Mapping Methane Emissions in California
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U.S. plagued by multiple deadly weather and climate disasters in August
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