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Antibiotic resistance is a growing global public health threat causing an estimated 23,000 deaths in America each year. One historically overlooked avenue by which antibiotic resistance can spread is through contact or consumption of contaminated water.
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Laura Dansby, chair of the Climate Action Alliance of the Valley, released the responses her organization received from a questionnaire it sent to 13 area candidates running in this fall’s election.
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Free-range parenting has been a hot topic in recent months in the news and in online forums after two Maryland children were detained while walking home from a local park.
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The Virginia Tech Department of Food Science and Technology and DuPont Teijin Films™ have entered into a collaboration that will allow companies to test new ways to package and prepare food using the university’s network of experts and DTF’s new packaging materials.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 9 to stop enforcement nationwide of the “Waters of the United States” rule.
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The National Institutes of Health awarded a $5 million grant to Virginia Commonwealth University to take part in a landmark study on substance use and adolescent brain development.
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides contain three key components: the active ingredient glyphosate, water, and a soap-like surfactant blend. The agricultural application of glyphosate has skyrocketed over the past 20 years.
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In a Senegalese village, children grow vegetable seedlings and organize money-raising traditional Senegalese wrestling events in a Positive Youth Development program modeled after Virginia Cooperative Extension’s 4-H program.
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In our U.S. Constitution, our Founders meticulously designed three branches of government so that too much power would not be concentrated in any one branch because they understood that if one branch possessed unchecked authority, that power would ultimately diminish the inherent rights of the individual citizen.
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Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Tuesday that WDC Greenhouse, LLC (dba BrightFarms) will locate its newest greenhouse production facility in Culpeper County. The company will invest $7.35 million to construct and operate two new greenhouses and create 24 new jobs.
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