Results tagged “naturalresources”

We've mentioned it briefly before, but it's worth reminding everyone that a D.C. neighborhood is in contention to win a makeover from HGTV, and a lot of local bloggers are asking you to cast your vote to help make it happen. In partnership with Rebuilding Together, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Natural Resources Defense Council, HGTV's Change the World, Start at Home contest has identified D.C.'s Anacostia as one of ten needy...

Good morning, Washington, and welcome to Friday. There's nothing like a nationally televised address about troop levels to put you in a mood for a sound night's sleep heading into the weekend, isn't there? Certainly we would never have tossed and turned contemplating the "sinister ingenuity" that allows President Bush to escalate a war and then de-escalate it a year later without ever having a plan to successfully end it, and yet be able...

Let's start with the good news this morning: this excessive, unrelenting, soul-sucking heat is expected to come to an end tomorrow, say the guys at Capital Weather. And we say they better not just be leading us on. However, today is yet another day in Scorcher '06 -- and may even be the hottest one yet -- with highs once again flirting with triple digits. Heat-related Problems Continue: With near record temperatures, people are...

Has anyone else noticed the wind today? How could you not? Many of my officemates came in this morning looking very Flock of Seagulls after their short walk from the Metro. Along with the 80's hair, the wind has also brought us some extreme fire weather and thus a Red Flag Warning from the National Weather Service. Fortunately, none of my coworkers were flaming as they walked in, though no one can really get a...

Apparently, we don't need to fear the local infestation of northern snakehead in our local waters as we once did. So perhaps we shouldn't be calling it an infestation. But that doesn't mean there isn't a long-term threat from the invasive species from China. The AP, via the W.Times, reports that the frankenfish, which has the ability to breath out of water, probably isn't traveling on its own very easily between different bodies of water...

There are two water-related stories of note: