Advance planning is key for potential extreme weather this spring
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With the arrival of spring, severe weather takes on different forms – strong winds, tornadoes, hailstorms, lightning and flash floods.
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What are the health, environmental benefits of planting trees in urban areas?
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Planting more trees in urban areas has numerous health and environmental benefits.
It is long past time to really pare down the Department of Defense budget
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Here we are in yet another crisis of our own making (well, made by the people we freely elected), the debt ceiling debacle. At the actual nut of the problem is the military budget.
Most costly natural disaster threatens with spring rains and hurricane season
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The most common and costly natural disaster is flooding, and it could be around the corner.
Are there environmental implications to seeding clouds to affect the weather?
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Cloud seeding—also called “blueskying”—involves releasing chemicals such as silver iodide, potassium iodide or calcium chloride into the atmosphere to stimulate cloud formation, enhance clouds’ precipitation or suppress rain where blue skies are desired.
Homeowners reminded to prepare for spring storm season in Virginia
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Thunderstorms, flooding, hail and tornados are all possible with severe weather in the spring in Virginia.
Virginia Tech experts: Severe weather, warming climate to continue in 2023
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Virginia Tech experts have been studying extreme weather patterns and have some predictions for 2023 and beyond.
What happens environmentally when today’s new solar panels wear out in 20-30 years?
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How are we going to deal with all the waste when the solar panels everyone is putting up now wear out in 20-30 years?
After the flood waters: Augusta County bakery reopens to serve sweet stuff
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New Year’s Eve was like any other business day for SweetNanaCakes when the bakery closed at noon after filling holiday wishes.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: What’s making environmental news
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Wildlife is disappearing at an alarming rate around the world, in the oceans and on land.
