Climate Corner: AI, data centers a dangerous spreading plague

Climate Corner: AI, data centers a dangerous spreading plague Local columns May 16, 2026 Aaron Dunbar editorial@newsandsentinel.com Silicon Valley wants to control every single aspect of your life. They want to tell you what you can and can’t… Read More

Climate Corner: The ‘scare’

May 9, 2026 Callie Lyons editorial@newsandsentinel.com For many years, the story of C8 or PFOA contamination in the Mid-Ohio Valley was framed as nothing more than a “scare.” Journalists who covered it were accused of using inflammatory and… Read More

Climate Corner: Time to step up on injection wells

Local columns May 2, 2026 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com Last fall I received a phone call from someone in Parkersburg who reported that she witnessed brine waste (production waste from high-pressure hydraulic fracturing, i.e., fracking) being transported from railway… Read More

Climate Corner: Why West Virginia’s rivers deserve a voice

Local columns Apr 25, 2026 Charlise Robinson editorial@newsandsentinel.com I’ve stood on the banks of the Ohio River at sunrise, watching the water move steadily past. In moments like that it is easy to believe our rivers will always… Read More

Climate Corner: Electrifying case studies, concepts for energy resilience

Apr 18, 2026 Jonathan Brier Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner   I was talking with a farmer in March and a few things about that conversation stuck out, which I wanted to share more broadly.   Did you know… Read More

Climate Corner: Public lands need protection

Apr 11, 2026 Randi Pokladnik For the first eight years of my life, our family lived in a small rented house in Steubenville, Ohio. We had a tiny yard lacking any trees, so my mom would take my… Read More

Climate Corner: No kings, no exceptions

Apr 4, 2026 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com Easter is the most important day in the year for Christians. It commemorates the state torture and execution of a political protester and agitator, Jesus of Nazareth, more than 2,000 years ago… Read More

Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner: World Water Day

Mar 28, 2026 Vic Elam editorial@newsandsentinel.com Last Sunday, March 22, was proclaimed by the United Nations as World Water Day. The theme this year was “Where Water Flows Equality Grows.” This year, attention was given to the plight… Read More

Climate Corner: An icy desert

Mar 21, 2026 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com Antarctica, known as the South Pole, is the coldest, windiest and most remote of the seven continents. Its name comes from the Greek meaning “opposite to the bear.” It has no native… Read More

Climate Corner: Yes, we have no bananas

Mar 14, 2026 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com A banana is an elongated, edible frui — botanically a berry — produced by several kinds of large treelike, herbaceous flowering plants. Bananas are the world’s most consumed fruit – and… Read More