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A spill last week is lending support to calls for an end to menhaden fishing in Chesapeake Bay. Those tiny fish are essential to the survival of marine mammals, sea birds and other fish, but a Canadian company dumped about 400,000 of them into the bay.
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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…
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There are more than four hundred bed and breakfasts in Virginia, trading on beautiful scenery or fine wine. In Madison County there’s a small inn known to…
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Virginia’s thriving oyster farming industry means the shellfish can be eaten year-round. But wild oysters in the Chesapeake Bay region remain in a…
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Every decade, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration releases a new analysis of average temperature and precipitation values across the…
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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.…
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New research out of West Virginia University says trees are now taking up more Carbon Dioxide than ever recorded. And because forests are the planet’s…
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Scientists agree that trees are an important weapon in the fight against climate change. New forests absorb large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere,…
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Faced with climate changes that are taking a toll on our shoreline, our forests and farms, Virginia has agreed to stop burning fossil fuels by 2050. To…
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Scientists are documenting increasingly higher temperatures each year and climate change is not really in question anymore. Once bare alpine mountains are…