Climate Corner: An appeal to our better angels
Sep 20, 2025 Griffin Bradley editorial@newsandsentinel.com Since the beginning of time, humans have had an inherent connection to the nature that surrounds them. Even modern humans hold innate primal instincts that connect us to the Earth in one… Read More
What will the day after tomorrow look like?
Sep 13, 2025 Rebecca Phillips Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner Some of us no doubt remember the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean’s currents led to an ice-covered Northern… Read More
Climate Corner: How much is enough?
Sep 6, 2025 Bev Reed editorial@newsandsentinel.com Washington County takes in the second most amount of fracking waste fluid by county in the state. There are 17 Class Il fracking wastewater injection wells in the county — four of… Read More
Climate Corner: Hijacking the plastics treaty
Aug 30, 2025 Randi Pokladnik Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Corner On Aug. 15, the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the United Nations ended without a legally binding treaty on plastics pollution. With more than 2,600 participants,… Read More
Climate Corner No more time to waste
Aug 23, 2025 Eric Engle At a recent meeting I attended with a representative from Congressman Riley Moore’s office at the Resiliency Center in Parkersburg, another meeting attendee referred to the anthropogenic (human-caused) global climate crisis as,… Read More
Climate Corner: Educating for the earth – youth programs can build a greener future
Aug 9, 2025 Jean Ambrose editorial@newsandsentinel.com Humans like to imagine ourselves at the top of the pyramid when thinking about our place in the universe. But we often forget that we are just one part of the complex… Read More
Climate Corner: Here comes the sun
Aug 2, 2025 Giulia Mannarino editorial@newsandsentinel.com It’s exciting that one of the world’s largest solar microgrid and storage projects is currently under construction and located in West (by God) Virginia! The “Canary Solar Grid” project in Jackson County,… Read More
Climate Corner: Climate change and children’s health
Jul 26, 2025 Linda Eve Seth editorial@newsandsentinel.com I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is. — Greta Thunberg, Swedish activist *** Children are uniquely vulnerable to climate change. In many parts… Read More
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Climate Corner: Climate change, extreme weather and insurance companies
Sep 27, 2025 George Banziger editorial@newsandsentinel.com “We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing to pay rate hike after rate hike.” “We are small business owners who… Read More