Chesapeake Bay

Environmentalists saw a victory last week when congress allocated close to 11 million dollars of the 2016-spending bill for land conservation along the...

The Chesapeake Bay Program, that multi-state, multi-federal agency partnership working on bay restoration, released Monday the latest set of draft…

Barely four hours into office, Governor Larry Hogan angered environmental groups by withdrawing phosphorus regulations they had been seeking for years.…

The water is clearer, the underwater grasses are coming back and so are the oysters, if only incrementally, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s…

In an "11th hour" move, Governor O'Malley put forth rules to tighten regulations on phosphorus that runs off into the Chesapeake Bay. WYPR's Fraser Smith…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Peter Jensen of the Baltimore Sun talk about phosphorus levels in the Chesapeake Bay and the uncertain status of proposed rules to…

Baltimore City and County are fighting a common enemy these days: trash. Both are finding ways to keep their foe out of the streams and rivers that flow…

Federal geologists once warned that the silt trapped behind Conowingo dam was “a time bomb,” threatening to choke the life out of Chesapeake Bay. The mass…

Educators from around the country have adopted environmental literacy and science, engineering and technology (STEM) programs as part of a grass roots…

The Chesapeake Bay once supplied most of the nation's oysters, but overharvesting and disease nearly wiped them out. Now, major public-private efforts to re-establish the oyster as a quality local food product appear to be working. And chefs say the results are sweeter than oysters from other waters.