Katherine Hafner
ReporterKatherine is WHRO’s climate and environment reporter. She came to WHRO from the Virginian-Pilot in 2022. Katherine is a California native who now lives in Norfolk and welcomes book recommendations, fun science facts and of course interesting environmental news.
Reach Katherine at katherine.hafner@whro.org.
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Virginia is the second U.S. state to approve “balcony solar.” Other bills will protect workers from heat exhaustion and better manage energy demand. -
Artemis moon trees have been planted across the state in recent years, including at the Virginia Zoo and NASA Langley Research Center. -
A decades-long study reveals widespread crab cannibals in northern areas of the bay. -
The Virginia Department of Health opened an additional 250 acres of water for commercial harvesters, who mostly raise oysters through aquaculture. -
Conservationists worry a potential rollback of the regulation would hamper reviving the dwindling whale population. -
The project was a partnership between NOAA and Northrop Grumman, which used emerging sonar technology. -
The project is expected to increase the average household’s monthly gas bill by about $2. -
The utility says the technology produces equipment more quickly, cheaply and with greater flexibility. -
A decade-long study found balloon fragments are omnipresent on Virginia’s beaches and remote islands. -
The class will construct about 1,200 feet of living shoreline on the Hampton River.
