
McEachin encourages EPA to monitor methane emissions in Virginia
The amount of methane emissions from landfills is more of a concern than we thought.

The amount of methane emissions from landfills is more of a concern than we thought.

Solar panels are going up across the Chesapeake Bay watershed to help states reach their renewable energy targets. But, while working to achieve climate-related goals, solar fields have the potential to generate water pollution — through increased stormwater runoff.

The Virginia State University College of Agriculture welcomes the public to its annual Agriculture Field Day on Thursday.
A unique program at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is helping students who are underrepresented in medicine reach their dreams of medical school.
Nearly 75 percent of the world’s coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures and local human activity, said Anne Staples, an associate professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics.
Radford might be recognized for being the best “party” school in Virginia – but Virginia Tech students, faculty and alumni certainly know their beer.

A program that aims to prepare future Virginia government leaders announced the members of its fifth class this week.
The 40 students at Virginia Tech’s first drone camp came from as far away as Wisconsin. Split into two teams, they waited with their flight controllers in hand at either end of the school’s 300-foot-long drone park.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin participated in the official grand opening and ribbon cutting of the Mecklenburg County Middle School and High School on Friday, and used the occasion to ceremonially sign legislation providing more than $1 billion in school construction funds for K-12 public education.
The most common form of heart disease in cats is Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which affects up to 15 percent of cats.
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