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After decades of waterfront living, climate change is forcing communities to plan their retreat f...

After decades of waterfront living, climate change is forcing communities to plan their retreat f...

The Washington Post — On Richmond Crescent in Norfolk, Va., more than a dozen homes rise in varying heights, forming a streetscape bar graph tracing the past decade's increasing threat of flooding from an inlet of the Lafayette River. A green house with a prominent front porch is a modest four feet off the ground.
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Norfolk has a plan to save itself from rising seas. For many, it's a $2.7 billion mystery - Virgi...

Norfolk has a plan to save itself from rising seas. For many, it's a $2.7 billion mystery - Virgi...

Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism — Norfolk, where the land is sinking and seas are rising faster than anywhere else on the Atlantic coast, is the first city in the U.S. to move forward with a coastal storm risk management plan under a 2015 Army Corps of Engineers strategy.
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North Carolina Bald Cypresses Are Among the World's Oldest Trees

North Carolina Bald Cypresses Are Among the World's Oldest Trees

Smithsonian Magazine — smithsonian.com "There is no other place on Earth like this," Angie Carl says. Her voice carries across the swamp of North Carolina's Black River as we sit floating in kayaks at the knees of our elders, an ancient stand of bald cypress trees.
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An ancient people with a modern climate plan

An ancient people with a modern climate plan

The Washington Post — A native American tribe living on an island in northwest Washington long ago recognized the threat of climate change. They implemented a climate action plan in 2010, melding traditional practices with science. Now, 50 other native tribes across the country have similar strategies, way ahead of U.S. communities.
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Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests

Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests

Smithsonian Magazine — For years, Emily Ury traversed North Carolina's coastal roads, studying patches of skeletal trees slain by rising seas that scientists call "ghost forests." Killed by intruding saltwater along the Atlantic Coast, they are previews of the dire fate other forests face worldwide.
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Amid scrutiny, Norfolk housing authority subsidiary says it will attempt to add a local project -...

Amid scrutiny, Norfolk housing authority subsidiary says it will attempt to add a local project -...

The Virginia Mercury — Hampton Roads Ventures, the controversial subsidiary of Norfolk's housing authority, will try to add a Norfolk project in the next application for tax credits used to finance projects in distressed areas.
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Why is a Norfolk community development entity investing everywhere but Norfolk? - Virginia Mercur...

Why is a Norfolk community development entity investing everywhere but Norfolk? - Virginia Mercur...

The Virginia Mercury — NORFOLK - When they posed for a picture in an empty field 18 years ago, Robert K. Jenkins and other Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority officials were confident that a new subsidiary would bring a much-needed shopping center to Norfolk's Berkley neighborhood by pioneering the use of a fledgling federal tax credits program.
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Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest

Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest

WIRED Magazine — Leaf waxes also predate climate records from Antarctic ice cores, which go back only about a million years and require a climate that can support ice. One study used leaf waxes to glimpse the climate of a warmer Spain some 15 to 17 million years ago.
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Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks

Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks

The Washington Post — Lewis Lawrence likes to refer to the coastal middle peninsula of Virginia as suffering from a "soggy socks" problem. Flooding is so persistent that people often can't walk around without getting their feet wet.
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Turning manure into money

Turning manure into money

The Washington Post — When Randy Jordan, a fifth-generation dairy farmer in central Massachusetts, looked into turning manure from his 300 cows into natural gas more than a decade ago, he just wanted to find a way to lower his increasingly painful electric bill. He knew that biodigesters, a sort of modern alchemy that transforms poop into profits, had been around for decades.
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A model for neighborhood renewal

A model for neighborhood renewal

The Washington Post — ST. LOUIS - For decades, the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood on the north side, with its boarded-up rowhouses and empty lots, was one of the most distressed areas of this city. More than a decade ago, two St. Louis lawyers created an innovative model using an obscure federal tax credits program to finance for-sale affordable housing. They collaborated with the city’s Habitat for Humanity nonprofit to initially build more than 67 houses and over the next decade shepherded $18.3 million in tax credits investments to build a total of 103 affordable homes across the city.
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Revolutionary recycling? A new technology turns everyday trash into plastic treasure.

Revolutionary recycling? A new technology turns everyday trash into plastic treasure.

The Washington Post — UBQ says it has succeeded where others have failed, creating a radical technology that transforms garbage into the raw materials for plastics manufacturers and earns them a profit in the end.
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Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?

Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?

Yale Environment 360 — U.S. coastal cities face billions of dollars in costs for the extensive infrastructure projects needed to protect against rising seas and worsening storms. From Boston to Miami, government officials are only beginning to grasp the enormous expense of what will be required.
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How Origami Is Revolutionizing Industrial Design

How Origami Is Revolutionizing Industrial Design

Smithsonian Magazine — smithsonian.com When Anton Willis moved into his San Francisco apartment, he had a space problem: no room for his beloved kayak. He'd grown up paddling the Pacific and local waters in Mendocino County. Retrieving it from storage was an inconvenience he was determined to solve.
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Can Virus Hunters Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Happens?

Can Virus Hunters Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Happens?

Smithsonian Magazine — smithsonian.com Last summer, Dr. Kevin Olival joined a group of Indonesian hunters as they ventured deep into the mangrove forests of South Sulawesi island. The hunters were looking for roosting bats, mainly fruit bats and flying foxes-for them, a lucrative prize that can be shipped to villages in the north as part of the bushmeat trade.
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Copper's Virus-Killing Powers Were Known Even to the Ancients

Copper's Virus-Killing Powers Were Known Even to the Ancients

Smithsonian Magazine — When researchers reported last month that the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic survives for days on glass and stainless steel but dies within hours after landing on copper, the only thing that surprised Bill Keevil was that the pathogen lasted so long on copper.
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As High-Tide Flooding Worsens, More Pollution Is Washing to the Sea

As High-Tide Flooding Worsens, More Pollution Is Washing to the Sea

Yale Environment 360 — As sea levels rise, high-tide flooding is becoming a growing problem in many parts of the globe, including cities on the U.S. East Coast. Now, new research shows that as these waters recede, they carry toxic pollutants and excess nutrients into rivers, bays, and oceans.
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Northam's medical school banned yearbooks in 2014 - after students posed in Confederate garb

Northam's medical school banned yearbooks in 2014 - after students posed in Confederate garb

The Washington Post — The first person Richard V. Homan hired after becoming provost of Eastern Virginia Medical School seven years ago was Mekbib Gemeda, in the newly created position of vice president for diversity and inclusion. Homan said he wanted the student body at EVMS to better reflect the diversity of the patients, from both rural and urban areas, that the young doctors-in-training would serve.
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Flooding Hot Spots: Why Seas Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast

Flooding Hot Spots: Why Seas Are Rising Faster on the U.S. East Coast

Yale Environment 360 — Scientists are unraveling the reasons why some parts of the world are experiencing sea level increases far beyond the global average. A prime example is the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, which has been experiencing "sunny day flooding" that had not been expected for decades.
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Five Americans Explain Democrats' Enthusiasm

Five Americans Explain Democrats' Enthusiasm

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Virginia court tosses one-vote victory that briefly ended GOP majority in House

Virginia court tosses one-vote victory that briefly ended GOP majority in House

The Washington Post — Control of Virginia's legislature hung in limbo Wednesday after a three-judge panel declined to certify the recount of a key House race, saying that a questionable ballot should be counted in favor of the Republican and tying a race that Democrats thought they had won by a single vote.
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Stories by Jim Morrison : Contently

Stories by Jim Morrison : Contently

contently.com — Award-Winning Writer Jim Morrison writes about the environment, travel, the arts, and business. His stories have appeared in numerous publications including Smithsonian, The New York Times, and National Wildlife.
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75 Years of the Blue Ridge Parkway

75 Years of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Smithsonian Magazine — The sign marking the commencement of construction for the Blue Ridge Parkway is an unassuming gray roadside plaque, a few hundred yards from the North Carolina-Virginia border near Cumberland Knob. The low profile seems appropriate here. The parkway's pleasures are subtle, harking back to a time when traveling was about the journey, not just the destination.
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Can Hurricanes Be Predicted Decades in Advance?

Can Hurricanes Be Predicted Decades in Advance?

Pacific Standard — In 2007, a reporter for the Post & Courier of Charleston, S.C., was tired of doing straight stories on hurricane forecasts. So he hired a medium to predict the forthcoming storm season. At the end of the hurricane season, it turned out the medium had been more accurate than the scientists who took it upon themselves to make storm predictions. But research seems likely to soon make weather mediums a thing of the past. University of Massachusetts researcher Jon Woodruff putters his plastic boat near enough to the rest of his team so the others can hear when X marks the spot. Slowly, he relays the string of numbers: 30.01136N and 84.42989W. Sam Zipper, a research assistant from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, enters them into his GPS device and directs us west and then north.
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