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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The hospital system estimates the change could reduce about 78,000 pounds of plastic waste each year. -
About 85% of beaches in coastal Virginia tested positive for harmful bacteria at least once last summer. -
The ecosystem spanning more than 3,200 square miles remains a largely natural landscape, but population growth could make that hard to maintain, according to a new report. -
Nearly 350 people in southeastern Virginia visited urgent care or emergency rooms with heat-related illness in late June. -
Local officials use what they call a “Harry Potter resiliency sorting hat” to help residents with problems such as flood damage and failing septic systems. -
The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the extraterrestrial impact. -
The latest survey found just 18 ospreys living along the seaside of the peninsula. -
The court ruled conservative interest groups behind the suit, as well as the Trump administration, have until September to decide how to proceed given changes to federal priorities. -
The law, passed by the General Assembly in 2021, applies to food vendors with 20 or more locations starting July 1. -
State regulators are set to hear from petitioners seeking to require terrapin excluder devices on crab cages next week. The proposal faces pushback from commercial crabbers.
