Bags of holly are piled outside a hanger at Bay Bridge Airport for pilots to carry to Tangier Island during the annual Holly Run. Helen Woods, owner of Chesapeake Sport Pilot, briefs pilots at Bay ...

Annapolis photographer Jay Fleming has spent years documenting life on the Chesapeake Bay’s Smith Island and Tangier Island, which are headed toward uninhabitability due to climate change. Here are ...

On a summer day that felt more like fall, I finally made my way to a tiny island in the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier aka the “soft-shell crab capital of the world” located off the Eastern Shore in Accomack ...

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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 ...

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 in the Chesapeake Bay has long been engaged with a battle against erosion and rising water. Has its salvation been skulking just offshore this whole time? Two potential projects would ...

Tangier Island in Virginia — one of the last inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay — is under threat from rising sea levels and climate change. This small Virginia island could be underwater before ...