By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com This week, the West Virginia Botanic Garden is “on fire” with a full display of summer flowering plants and the insects that love them. WARNING: If you do not like insects, stay away! But, if you like flowers, butterflies, bees and beetles, ...
MORGANTOWN -- Want a conversation starter for your yard that focuses attention on the environment and the need to protect water resources? What about a water reserve for your garden or yard? You can get both by attending one of two upcoming rain barrel workshops, the result of a ...
WVU Today A West Virginia University professor who will focus on the increased visitor use in protected areas and green spaces in Austria during the COVID-19 pandemic — including the negative effects — has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for the fall 2021 ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com CHARLESTON — More than 8,500 volunteers removed 489 tons of litter from West Virginia’s landscape during spring cleanup programs sponsored by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. Numbers were recently finalized for April’s Make It ...
During my childhood, I spent many hours searching through clover patches for four-leaf clovers. I desperately wanted to find one. Generally, I’ve always been good at finding things, so since I never found this sign of good luck I convinced myself they simply don’t ...
WVU Today In 2014, around 10,000 gallons of a coal-washing chemical called MCHM spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, affecting 30,000 residents in nine counties. Two years later, floods ravaged central and southeastern West Virginia, claiming 23 lives. These incidents and ...