214 Days: Tree sitters have blockaded the Mountain Valley Pipeline for seven months. Here’s what motivates them to persist.
It started with the two tree si...
Wild Ponies of Chincoteague are put in corrals after visitors ignore ban
A band of Chincoteague ponies have been corralled on Assateague Island after visito...
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"Back in Session" has been an ongoing project of mine at Brevard College. When I was a sophomore, a couple of faculty members ...
Unloading the truck on the border of the Citico Creek Wilderness, I wrestle on my pack full of a weekend’s worth of supplies—including my old crosscut saw....
Global carbon dioxide levels are higher than they’ve been in 3 million years
Carbon dioxide, the gas mainly responsible for global warming, has reached leve...
Thawing on Alaska’s Denali could soon reveal decades of poop
In the decades since people began summiting Denali, climbers have left behind 66 tons of feces ...
Greensboro, NC woman encounters nearly naked man on hiking trail
Runners and hikers in Greensboro, NC are being warned to stay alert after a nearly naked ma...
Extreme weather fueled by climate change affected 62 million people last year
As extreme weather worsens around the globe, a growing number of people can e...
Virginia Runner Sets Record with 10 Marathons in 10 Days
Michael Wardian is at it again. The 44-year-old, Arlington-based ultrarunner, well known in the run...
Duke Energy ordered to relocate all coal ash to lined landfills in NC
Earlier this week, the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that Duk...
Report confirms the endangered red wolf is its own distinct species
The wolf taxonomy committee of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medici...
88 pounds of plastic found in stomach of dead whale
A young Cuvier’s beaked whale was found on the coast of the Philippines last week weak and vomiting bloo...
Let’s stop talking about climate change in the future tense. Climate change is happening here and now, right in our Blue Ridge backyard.
The floods caught e...
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians can once again harvest sochan in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A historic signing of an agreement at the Oconaluftee ...
The $23 million road to nowhere in Rocky Fork
Rocky Fork State Park is Tennessee’s wildest state park—and one of the wildest spots in all of Southern Appala...
