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 ISLAND – A teenager wanders at dusk, playing pop hits from 2010 on his phone at top volume. Old men speak a dialect similar to Cornish. The mayor has an office in town, but spends his days ...

Climate change is one of the big topics at Friday's G20 summit and researchers say it's one of the reasons a tiny island on the East Coast, Tangier Island, is washing away. People there say erosion is ...

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 ...

Nearly every day, Carol Pruitt Moore hops in her small skiff and visits Uppards, an abandoned island just north of Tangier in the Chesapeake Bay. She combs the wind-swept, rapidly eroding sod and silt ...

As I walked onto the front porch of the David B. Nichols Health Center, it amazed me to think it had been five years since the place opened — five years since Tangier gained a remarkable, state-of-the ...

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — Tangier is a tiny town with a big problem. For starters, it isn’t just a town – it’s a 1.2-square-mile island fighting against time and the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier has always ...

Islanders in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay could be among the first "climate change refugees" in the continental United States as rising seas claim their historic fishing village, a report released ...

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