Report: Chesapeake Bay ‘dead zones’ expected to be above average this year
The Chesapeake Bay’s so-called “dead zones” – low-oxygen areas that can suffocate underwater life and shrink available habitat – are expected to be above average this year.
The Chesapeake Bay’s so-called “dead zones” – low-oxygen areas that can suffocate underwater life and shrink available habitat – are expected to be above average this year.
Like the proverbial boiling frogs, the government has been gradually acclimating us to the specter of a police state for years now.
Ticks are everywhere, and they’re not going to go away, according to a Virginia Tech entomologist.
Back around the first of the year, a reader named David Proffitt wrote me the first of dozens of emails, and counting, asking me to look into what he called a “hate crime” involving a sewer project in Augusta County.
A group of community stakeholders has organized to help grow Black business in Staunton with the Staunton Black Business Collective.
The number of suicide attempts including Tylenol overdoses among youth is of particular concern to poison control call centers in Virginia and across the nation.
Margaret Anne Hinkle, a Washington and Lee professor, recently co-authored a peer-reviewed article in Environmental Geochemistry and Health.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin proclaimed June 17 to 23, 2024 as Virginia Pollinator Week in recognition of the important role of pollinators.
Climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety, is the chronic fear of environmental doom.
Five children required hospitalization in the recent E. Coli outbreak at Lake Anna over Memorial Day weekend.