More pollution has been sweeping past the Conowingo Dam since its reservoir filled with sediment a decade ago, allowing millions of pounds of nutrient pollution to wash downstream to the…
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state lawmakers in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania when they gather in…
The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reported Monday, with upticks in water quality offset by a worrisome decline in…
The operator of the largest coal-fired power plant in Maryland has agreed to stop burning coal in support of legislation that would transition the state away from coal in order…
What isn’t known about the 400-year history of African Americans and the Chesapeake region could fill the Bay itself to overflowing. “This is part of the American story,” said Jonathan…
Just five decades ago, Elliott Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was a global hotspot for avid birders who wanted to add the diminutive Eastern black rail to their life lists….
Federal attorneys are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from environmentalists and several Chesapeake Bay watershed states that aims to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take more aggressive action…
After the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for Joe Biden on Saturday, environmental advocates in Maryland and across the country exhaled a sigh of relief. In just four years, President Trump rolled…
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…
