In this 5-part podcast series, WTOP reporter Michelle Basch visited the Chesapeake Bay island to learn more about its people and what’s really happening. Tangier Island, Virginia, is slowly sinking.

Tangier Island, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, rises only a few feet above the surrounding waves. An hour by boat from the mainland, about 500 people live on Tangier. Since the 1600s ...

Tangier Island, where tradition-bound residents make their living from the Chesapeake Bay and some speak a dialect similar to Cornish, ... “People on the island will live 60-70 years, ...

The island was disappearing into the nation’s largest estuary, scientists have said, predicting that people living there may have to abandon Tangier in 25 to 50 years. The Associated Press ...

TANGIER ISLAND – A teenager wanders at dusk, ... “People on the island will live 60-70 years, and they will be most concerned with what happens in their lifetimes,” Smith said.

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — A teenager wanders at dusk, playing pop hits from 2010 on his phone at top volume. Old men speak a dialect similar to Cornish. The mayor has an office in town, but spends ...

The real people of island life. Tangier Island is located twelve miles offshore, in the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier Island is a tightknit, culturally unique fishing community focused on commercial fish… ...

Tangier Island is located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, just south of the Maryland line. ... Most people get around the 3-mile-long island by foot, golf cart or bicycle.

VIRGINIA, USA — Tangier Island sits in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay between the Eastern Shore and the Northern Neck of Virginia, accessible only by boat or a small plane. Everyone knows ...

Tangier residents feel their little island in the middle of Chesapeake Bay has been a sort of safe haven from the COVID-19 crisis raging ... infecting people on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and ...

TANGIER ISLAND, Va. — Tangier is a tiny town with a big problem. For starters, it isn’t just a town – it’s a 1.2-square-mile island fighting against time and the Chesapeake Bay. Tangier ...