You hear a lot about shark sightings and attacks: Does this mean that sharks are more abundant than ever?
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It’s tough to accurately document shark sightings, but shark attacks are documented every year.
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In the Chesapeake Bay, summertime striped bass fishing is in hot water
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Chesapeake Bay anglers are facing a stark future — a future in which summertime fishing for striped bass, once a hallmark of Bay fishing, may become a distant memory.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears joins aerospace association leadership team
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The Aerospace States Association (ASA) is an organization of Lieutenant Governors, Governor-appointed delegates and state legislators.
Working with nature: Dredged sediment is key for restoring Chesapeake islands
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It’s August 2019 and heat radiates from the expanse of sunbaked “mud” that covers two-thirds of Swan Island, a once half-drowned 25-acre island at the southern edge of Martin National Wildlife Refuge in the Chesapeake Bay.
$1.5 million in grants awarded to support redevelopment projects in Hampton Roads
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Newport News, Norfolk and Portsmouth will receive $1.5 million to support projects through the Port Host Communities Revitalization Fund.
Speeding boats in Virginia Beach likely cause of deadly right whale strike
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A new analysis from Oceana finds that hundreds of boats were speeding through zones in the Virginia Beach area in the weeks prior to a deadly boat strike.
Climate News Roundup: Sixth warmest January on record in Lower 48
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This January was the warmest on record in seven states, including the entirety of New England.
Climate News Roundup: The retreat of the Outer Banks; the heat is on in the Bay
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The ocean has become an increasingly greedy neighbor, forcing parts of the Outer Banks in North Carolina to retreat more than 200 feet in the last two decades.
Action needed to curb menhaden ‘net spills,’ harvest in Chesapeake Bay
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At least twice last summer, industrial menhaden harvester Omega Protein littered the beaches along Virginia’s Eastern Shore with dead Atlantic menhaden.
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.
