Climate Change

Last week the world’s leading climate scientists released another grim report: climate change is worsening. In the face of this uncertain future, Virginia ski resorts are working hard to still provide snow in varying conditions.

A climate change lawsuit on behalf of 13 young people in Virginia was dismissed in September, but lawyers and plaintiffs say, they will appeal that decision.

Scientists predict that flooding events will become more common, due to climate change, and communities in Appalachia are particularly vulnerable. The small town of Pulaski, in the New River Valley, is responding, by creating a plan to withstand the worst impacts of flooding.

Shellfish, coastal resilience administration, and loan programs are all new.

When it comes to outside conditions, you might wonder how much of what we experience each day is due to climate change. After all, Virginia has always had heat waves and cold spells. Now, a research center in New Jersey says it’s found a way to calculate the likelihood that high day and nighttime temperatures are the result of global warming.

Even though legislators are in a special session, they’re not all in Richmond trying to resolve budget differences. Instead they’re leaving it to a select group of negotiators. Environmental dollars are one disagreement they are attempting to resolve.

More than two dozen children skipped school in Charlottesville today Friday to show their support for more local efforts to address climate change.

You’ve heard it before. Virginia’s coasts are sinking as sea levels rise and oceans warm, leading to bigger, more frequent weather events and flooding.The…

Every decade, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases a new analysis of average temperature and precipitation values across the…

Now that the U.S. is back in the Paris Climate Accord, the University of Virginia wants to jump start America’s role in addressing the global emergency.…