With a deadly pandemic racing across the country and beginning to surface in the surrounding community last spring, the tiny Maryland nonprofit that operates one of the Chesapeake Bay’s last…
The cost to reduce the added nutrient pollution spilling over the Conowingo Dam now has a price tag: at least $53 million a year. That’s the rough estimate contained in…
In 1612, Capt. John Smith became the first European to produce a detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay region. He used the same mode of transportation that cartographers had used…
Striped bass can’t get a break, it seems. With their East Coast population in decline from overfishing, the migratory species had mixed success reproducing in the Chesapeake Bay this year,…
Will switchgrass, a tall, resilient and fast-growing native plant once familiar to pioneers, become the next cash crop for farmers in states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage? In a convergence…
The record for the world’s largest oyster restoration project is poised to be broken with a new $30 million project on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, but some environmentalists would like it…
A new round of testing for “forever chemicals” in St. Mary’s County, MD, found “no levels of concern” in oysters or in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay tributaries where the shellfish…
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a sweeping conservation measure that provides continued support for several key Chesapeake Bay initiatives and creates a new program to support fish and…
The forest teems with wildlife behind Michael and Lisa Lyston’s home in Abingdon, MD. Over the years, they’ve been visited by foxes, opossums, deer, raccoons, owls and woodpeckers — not…
With only a handful of large employers and Maryland’s highest poverty rate, Somerset County has come up empty for years in its efforts to attract a natural gas pipeline, which…
