They’re back!

By John McFerrin       Brood X of the seventeen year cicadas will be emerging in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia in late May.  

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New Climate Goal for the US, Will Others Follow?

On Earth Day, President Biden announced a new United States goal for meeting our obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement. The United States will reduce its carbon…

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Methane

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping heat in the atmosphere 30 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time frame. But unlike carbon dioxide that…

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Conservancy Votes to Support Climate Change Legislation

By Perry Bryant            In late March, President Biden proposed an infrastructure initiative that included major provisions addressing the climate crisis. Central to the President’s…

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Spring

Tree buds a bloominSpring is a zoominTo turn the world greenThe leaves will be poppin

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An Initial Examination of National Forest Management Response to Endangered Species Listing of the Candy Darter

By Rick WebbThe candy darter is a brightly colored 2 to 3-inch fish of mountain streams in the Gauley and New River watersheds…

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Another sign of spring

It must be spring; the woodpeckers are drumming.       Woodpeckers make two distinct types of sounds.  One is the irregular pecking, with a couple of thumps,…

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New Reporting on Fracking and Public Health

By John McFerrinThe Environmental Health News has announced the results of the effects of hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking) on public health.  The results were…

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Dolly Sods Project Moves Closer to Action

The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Dolly Sods project is getting close to the point where we can begin calling for volunteers for the first phase of activity,…

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What’s Happening with the Mountaineer Express Pipeline

By Cynthia D. EllisOur editor prompted me to write about what is new with the MXP…the Mountaineer XPress Pipeline…that mega pipeline that slashed…

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