Like farmers on land, beginning oyster farmers face steep obstacles shaped by pressures from development and land-use policies that put their access to the ocean at risk.
Scientists at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have just begun a three-year, $1 million research project that seeks to show how acidification — a consequence of climate change — will impact the Chesapeake Bay's famous oyster industry.
Maryland and Virginia lawmakers are gearing up for renewed debate over renewable energy and how their states should deal with the looming threats of climate change.
