By Elizabeth Halasz Thick, impenetrable walls of green rise on either side of the trail. For a moment, the gravel path I’m walking on seems to intrude on the natural environment, as if our group is exposing an ecosystem that has been here forever. But has it? Or, is the green shrubbery that we see Read more about Riverbank Invaders[…]

By Elizabeth Halasz The visible and invisible impacts of litter on the James River When I stepped out of my car at Pony Pasture, a recreational hotspot in the James River Park, I immediately looked down, hunting for trash. At first I didn’t see much. There was litter here, I knew, but the trash blends Read more about River Rubbish[…]