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Salt marsh, which accounts for about 70 percent of Tangier's area, stretches across the island's southern edge. As Tangier sinks and the surrounding bay rises, such wetlands are drowning and becoming open water, leaving the island without the buffer that has long protected it from storms.

'Chesapeake Requiem' Chronicles Life On An Endangered Island

Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, has been home to a small, self-reliant community of watermen for centuries — and now climate change is threatening to swamp the island and its way of life.

Coronavirus FAQs: Is It Safer To Fly Or Drive? Is Air Conditioning A Threat?

They're not exactly easy questions to answer. In the first case, you must consider motel cleaning regimens and the hazards of driving vs. the risk of sitting next to a sneezy air traveler.

"It's easy and I think it's a beautiful setting," President Trump said of giving his Republican renomination speech from the White House.

Trump Suggests Convention Speech At White House; GOP Sen. Asks: 'Is That Even Legal?'

Meanwhile, Joe Biden will not travel to host city Milwaukee for the Democratic convention because of the pandemic — and neither will any other speakers.

A Sip Of Morphine: Uganda's Old-School Solution To A Shortage Of Painkillers

Uganda is challenging morphine's reputation as an archaic, dangerous drug — and inspiring other African countries to do the same.

MSU creates center to help struggling Michigan local governments

Michigan cities are getting a little help dealing with financial problems.Michigan State University’s new Local Government Finance and Policy Center is…

Farmers check coffee beans handpicked at their farm located in Forquilha do Rio, municipality of Dores do Rio Preto, Espirito Santo, Brazil.

Coffee Keeps Its Mojo: Producers Overcome Pandemic Obstacles

Coffee has remained widely available on supermarket shelves even though COVID-19 has been particularly bad in some of the world's largest coffee-growing nations.

In <em>Sully,</em> Tom Hanks plays Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the airplane captain whose unprecedented landing on the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009, saved the lives of 155 passengers.

An Unforgettable 208-Second Flight Creates A Bureaucratic Frenzy In 'Sully'

A new film stars Tom Hanks as the airline captain who made an emergency landing on the Hudson in 2009. Critic David Edelstein says that Sully's flight sequence is by far the best part of the film.

White neighborhoods received PPP loans at twice the rate of Latino communities in metro Detroit

On a recent evening in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, notes from a guitar played by a busker on the sidewalk reverberated off the walls of the…

A woman passes a closed Social Security Administration office in Los Angeles in 2013. Some 53,000 of the agency's workers are now working from home.

For These Federal Employees, Telework Means Productivity Is Up, Their Backlog Is Down

Some 53,000 of the Social Security Administration's employees are working from home. And the agency's backlog of pending cases has fallen by 11% since March 23.

Two grounded American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8s are seen parked in Miami in 2019. The airline industry is seeing more travelers than in March and April but faces a long road to recovery.

U.S. Airlines Add Flights As Demand Increases, But Recovery Will Take Years

Ahead of the summer travel season, several U.S. airlines are expanding their flight schedules. But a complete recovery from the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic could take years.

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