Two floods in Staunton within weeks of each other in 2020 are the cause for the start of a seven-project process for flood ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently designated 22 Virginia localities as natural disaster designations due to recent drought conditions. As part of the ...

Karst formations are distinguished by their high levels of species diversity and endemism, including ferns and lycophytes. However, the existing data on plant community composition in karst formations ...

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — Search and rescue crews in the Dominican Republic completed a full day of looking for a missing 20-year-old from Loudoun County on Saturday after she had been reported ...

Farmers are slowly drying up the nation’s largest underground source of fresh water. Hydraulic pumps and mechanized irrigation equipment gave America’s Great Plains farmers access to seemingly ...

Irrigation brought fat harvests to the plains. But the water is disappearing. Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how businesses taking a 'Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence' approach to hiring are outperforming those taking a mandatory 'Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ...

Virginia Tech's main campus in Blacksburg includes 213 buildings, 2,600 acres, and an airport. The university has facilities across the state and around the globe, including a strong presence in ...