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As for the races, for the second year in a row, Capt. Shannon Gay in Rainbow Chaser, a wooden deadrise, won the premiere ...
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Virginia’s Tangier Island is disappearing. The climate crisis is captured in the new documentary “Been Here Stay Here,” which provides a deeper look at how the Chesapeake Bay community is ...
FILE - This Aug. 2, 2011 file photo shows the west side of Tangier Island, Va., a fishing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — ...
Rising waters due to climate change and erosion are diminishing the landmass of Tangier Island, Virginia, a tiny speck of land in the Chesapeake Bay, and threatening a centuries-old culture ...
Tangier Island has lost about two-thirds of its land since the 1850s, and research finds that much of the rest of the island could be lost within 50 years. Partners like the Chesapeake Bay ...
Alongside Tangier community leaders and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), officials visited sites on the island where land is disappearing due to sea level rise and erosion, followed by a ...
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) said the $2.3 million grant has been awarded to Tangier Island. Located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay between the Northern Neck and ...
VIRGINIA, USA — Tangier Island sits in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay between the Eastern Shore and the Northern Neck of Virginia, accessible only by boat or a small plane. Everyone knows ...
TANGIER ISLAND, Va ... 14 miles from the Eastern Shore — one of the last of its kind in the Chesapeake Bay. Erosion and sea level rise have already swallowed two-thirds of Tangier Island ...