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U.S. waters are connected by a fundamental force

October 17, 2014
How often do you think about gravity? Not even in the fall? The season kind of named for gravity? Not even when seemingly weightless orange, gold and red leaves glide towards the Earth, pulled inexorably toward its center by a powerful force that you can’t even see? Or when those leaves land gently in a

What’s clean water worth? The bottom line says billions

October 10, 2014
How much is clean water worth to you? Some of its benefits are incalculable – can you really put a dollar value on good health, a memorable fishing trip, or a babbling brook? But this week, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation tried. They looked at eight natural benefits that would be enhanced if the Chesapeake Clean

A leaking ark: Reports reveal pollution problems and species loss

October 1, 2014
Two reports released this week reveal dangerous holes in our haphazard collection of environmental safeguards. The first, an investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Inspector General (IG), found that sewage treatment plants in America fail to address hundreds of hazardous chemicals routinely released by industry. The second, by the international conservation group World Wildlife

Shenandoah’s snot-grass isn’t child’s play

September 23, 2014
It sounds like something kids would say to gross each other out: snot-grass. But to Shenandoah Riverkeeper Jeff Kelble and others who use the river, it’s serious business. For the past 10 years, according to Kelble’s group, long strips of slimy green algae (reminiscent of certain substances known to emanate from human nostrils) have formed

Warning: You can run, but you can’t swim

September 10, 2014
Tucked away in a tiny notice in the sports digest of The Washington Post this week was one line that spoke volumes. The notice was reporting on the results of the ninth Annual Events DC Nation’s Triathlon benefiting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The line read: “…the swimming portion of the event was canceled due

Looking out for the future

September 1, 2014
It was a bumpy ride on choppy seas in a fast boat between Cape Lookout National Seashore and the mainland last week as Hurricane Cristobal passed by a few hundred miles offshore. But Ray wanted to chat anyway. My husband John and I were the only other passengers on the last ferry leaving the island
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