| North Carolina’s winding Cape Fear River is a biodiversity stronghold, especially for birds like Brown Pelicans. But for nearly 40 years, the Fayetteville Works plant, a facility owned by DuPont until 2015, had been discharging a chemical compound called GenX into the waterway, which provides drinking water for half a million people and key habitat for nesting birds. Now, our scientists and partners are trying to figure out: Is the Cape Fear River making local birds and communities sick? Read on to learn how “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, may be affecting the health of birds and people living along the waterway. |
