A year ago, ducks and geese stopped coming to a small pond nestled between two hills off Link Road. The water, once clear and greenish-blue, has become cloudy and reddish orange.

Mud clogs our streams and rivers. While state and local officials can’t pinpoint the exact sources or amount of the sediment pouring into the streams, there is little question that runoff from developments large and small is a key factor.

Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.

BIG STONE GAP, Va. – A raucous crowd arrived Thursday for a public hearing on the future of permits allowing surface mine waste to be dumped into streams.

In September 2007, biologists joined forces with the Boxley Materials Company to build a new wetland outside the range of quarry expansion to give salamanders a place to reproduce.

A state panel adopted rules this afternoon designed to reduce the amount of pollution that rains wash from new office parks and other developed areas.

The number of poor air-quality days in Virginia dropped from 76 in 1999 to three in 2009, according to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

As of yesterday, patients, employees and visitors no longer are allowed to smoke on the property of the University of Virginia Medical Center.

The weed killer atrazine, widely used on Florida lawns and golf courses, interferes with the normal growth and development of amphibians and freshwater fish, says an analysis by researchers at the University of South Florida.

The Chesapeake Bay is too beautiful for its own good.

French fishermen allowed traffic to resume to three English Channel ports Thursday after receiving a government promise of euro4 million ($5.27 million) in aid, but they vowed to keep up their fight against European fishing quotas.

Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years. A new analysis of changing conditions in the region, using complex computer models of weather and climate, says conditions that had been forecast by the end of the century could occur much sooner.

Christian churches are turning over a new leaf for Palm Sunday.