climate change

Maryland should require a quarter of the energy residents use to come from renewable sources within the next five years, a group of Democratic state…

Ask Zoe Johnson, of the state Department of Natural Resources what climate change means for Maryland, and she gives you a list. “Wildfire and drought, you…

Flooding from extreme tidal swings was once just a rare nuisance for coastal cities. But rising sea levels have increased the frequency of these nuisance floods as much as tenfold since the 1960s.

WYPR's Joel McCord and Erin Cox of the Baltimore Sun talk about Governor O'Malley's new plan to fight climate change.

By the end of the century, ocean levels could rise by 2 or 3 feet. That's enough to flood the colonists' first settlement at Jamestown, Va. And it's putting pressure on archaeologists to get as many artifacts out of the ground as quickly as possible — before it's too late.

Last summer’s derecho was definitely an ill wind, but maybe it had an upside. The leafy greens of spring seem greener and lusher. An unexpected gift from…