Traffic alert: U.S. 250 detours overnight this week in Albemarle County
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Traffic on U.S. 250 in Albemarle County will be detoured onto Interstate 64 overnight Wednesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 20.
Search Results for flooding
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Biden Administration announces funding to expand access to trees, green spaces
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The Biden-Harris Administration announced the availability of $1 billion in grants to increase equitable access to trees and green spaces.
City of Harrisonburg to host cleanup, Arbor Day, rain barrel events
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The City of Harrisonburg is seeking community participation to help improve water quality and reduce stormwater runoff through three April events.
Nature, indeed, corrects itself: And we have an important role to play
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If we hope nature will correct itself … we need to wake up to our role in the rebalancing.
Conservation group submits petition with 2K signatures opposing Youngkin’s RGGI appeal effort
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A conservation group submitted a petition with 2,085 signatures opposing Governor Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to take Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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.
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.
