Virginia’s Tangier Island is rapidly disappearing. Rising sea levels are exacerbating erosion and flooding, and could make the speck of land in the Chesapeake Bay uninhabitable within the next few ...

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 ...

Richmond, VA (WRIC) – In the latest round of severe weather to affect Virginia, just after 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug.14, there was a report of a waterspout that occurred just to the west of Tangier Island ...

As the ferry approaches Tangier, Captain Steven Thomas tells a well-rehearsed history of the island, where crabbing has shaped the culture. He points out a handful of tiny buildings on stilts in the ...

Due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, Virginia’s Tangier Island is disappearing. The climate crisis is captured in the new documentary “Been Here Stay Here,” which provides a deeper look at ...

TANGIER, Va. — One of Virginia's most environmentally vulnerable communities is receiving a multi-million dollar grant to help protect its residents and its ecosystem. The Virginia Department of ...

ACCOMACK COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Tangier Island, a small Virginia island in the Chesapeake Bay, has been awarded a $2.3 million grant for environmental protection and mitigation projects. According to ...

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — Inez Pruitt has watched the coronavirus spread throughout the world from the relative safety of Tangier Island, a small, fishing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay.