ATLANTA — The grandest experiment of the government’s sprint to electrify its vehicle fleet is happening here, a 1 million-square-foot warehouse leased by the U.S. Postal Service in the outer reaches of Atlanta.
Fred Wilson Besley, born in 1872, in Vienna, Virginia, was appointed the first state forester in 1906, serving until 1942. Besley was an early graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and a protégé of Gifford Pinchot.
I know, I know, nobody wants to put "climate" and "Thanksgiving" in the same sentence. Tallying the environmental impact of a holiday feast doesn't seem like it's in the spirit of the thing. It's a holiday!
Baltimore City and Mayor Brandon Scott announced Monday that they had jointly filed a lawsuit against tobacco companies in an effort to recover money Baltimore spends cleaning up discarded cigarette butts.
In the not-so-distant past, I received a call from a grower asking about weed-control options in his wheat crop.
Drivers of electric vehicles who live in or travel through the Myersville area have more opportunities to charge their vehicles, after the activation of three charging stations at a local commuter parking lot.
Thurmont’s Board of Commissioners moved closer on Tuesday to addressing rodent infestations in town and regulating where — and how — chickens may be kept in residential areas.
Fred Wilson Besley, born in 1872, in Vienna, Virginia, was appointed the first state forester in 1906, serving until 1942. Besley was an early graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and a protégé of Gifford Pinchot.
I know, I know, nobody wants to put "climate" and "Thanksgiving" in the same sentence. Tallying the environmental impact of a holiday feast doesn't seem like it's in the spirit of the thing. It's a holiday!
Baltimore City and Mayor Brandon Scott announced Monday that they had jointly filed a lawsuit against tobacco companies in an effort to recove…
In the not-so-distant past, I received a call from a grower asking about weed-control options in his wheat crop.
Drivers of electric vehicles who live in or travel through the Myersville area have more opportunities to charge their vehicles, after the act…
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The Brunswick City Council is planning to vote Tuesday on an ordinance allowing residents to have backyard chickens.
With one of Emmitsburg’s main water sources running below optimal levels, the town has asked residents to limit how much water they use.
When Sekai Chideya was a little girl, she lived in Baltimore, near the lush forests of Leakin Park.
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Frederick County government continues to lead the way with renewable energy, boosting its solar energy generation by nearly 2 million kilowatts hours annually with the addition of two new projects.
BERLIN — Climate activists in Austria on Tuesday attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glue…
The Brunswick City Council is planning to vote Tuesday on an ordinance allowing residents to have backyard chickens.
With one of Emmitsburg’s main water sources running below optimal levels, the town has asked residents to limit how much water they use.
When Sekai Chideya was a little girl, she lived in Baltimore, near the lush forests of Leakin Park.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is currently deciding a case which may determine the future of wetlands around the Chesapeake Bay and across th…
The spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is an invasive insect that is a threat to a wide variety of trees, grape vines and other woody pla…
Frederick County government continues to lead the way with renewable energy, boosting its solar energy generation by nearly 2 million kilowatts hours annually with the addition of two new projects.
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A group of people stood under a canopy outside the Urbana Volunteer Fire Department on Saturday, perking up whenever a visitor arrived.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — President Joe Biden, speaking Friday at an annual international summit on climate change, urged world leaders to “dou…
Sitting 280 feet below water on the floor of the Pacific Ocean just 26 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, a credit-card-sized underwater micro…
A group of people stood under a canopy outside the Urbana Volunteer Fire Department on Saturday, perking up whenever a visitor arrived.
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Though harvest continues, many growers have planted next year’s crop; small grains, cover-crop, and even pasture seedings are getting in the ground.
The redwood family is probably the most fascinating evergreen as it was once a dominant tree in global forests before the cooling period known as the ice age. Many of these trees became extinct during this prolonged period of climate change. However, today, redwoods are found in the Far East and in a relatively small area along the Pacific Coast of the U.S.
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