The imperiled Tangier Island was the location for a meeting of federal, state and local entities who gathered to outline solutions for one of the communities most at risk from sea level rise. The ...

On Virginia’s Tangier Island, about 100 miles and a ferry ride from Washington, the waters of the Chesapeake Bay are edging dangerously close to William Eskridge’s house. Eskridge’s family has lived ...

Climate change is one of the big topics at Friday's G20 summit and researchers say it's one of the reasons a tiny island on the East Coast, Tangier Island, is washing away. People there say erosion is ...

Nearly every day, Carol Pruitt Moore hops in her small skiff and visits Uppards, an abandoned island just north of Tangier in the Chesapeake Bay. She combs the wind-swept, rapidly eroding sod and silt ...

TANGIER, Va. — Tangier Island, Virginia … population 460 (and shrinking). It’s a quirky, isolated place located smack dab in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Residents drive golf carts and speak ...

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 ...

For years, residents of this fast-shrinking island have been jealous of a project about 75 miles north in the Chesapeake Bay, up in Maryland waters, at a place called Poplar. A century and a half ago, ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. There is still a spot in America unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic, but people living there say ...

We took an hour ferry ride from Reedville, Virginia, to this tiny island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, 93 miles from Washington. Arriving in the harbor, we saw crab houses resting on piers, ...