The imperiled Tangier Island was the location for a meeting of federal, state and local entities who gathered to outline solutions for one of the communities most at risk from sea level rise. The ...
TANGIER, Va. — Tangier Island, Virginia … population 460 (and shrinking). It’s a quirky, isolated place located smack dab in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Residents drive golf carts and speak ...
TANGIER ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) — Legendary oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau once said “we forget the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” Those two forces collide when describing the fate ...
As the ferry approaches Tangier, Captain Steven Thomas tells a well-rehearsed history of the island, where crabbing has shaped the culture. He points out a handful of tiny buildings on stilts in the ...
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. There is still a spot in America unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic, but people living there say ...
Tangier Island, home to a Virginia fishing town and about 400 people, could be saturated by rising seas and convert to uninhabitable wetlands by 2051, according to an analysis released Monday. The ...
Tangier Island has been practicing self-isolation for centuries. In the age of the coronavirus, that history is paying off: No one on the Chesapeake Bay island of 425 year-round residents has tested ...
Life on Tangier Island has always been defined by water. Now it is menacing its very existence. Battered by Chesapeake Bay's relentless waves, scientists say the land’s shrinking is accelerating, as ...
Tangier Island, home to a Virginia fishing town and about 400 people, could be saturated by rising seas and convert to uninhabitable wetlands by 2051, according to an analysis released Monday. The ...