environment

"Toxic Metals in Wells and Air" might be the least welcome headline ever if you were developing a site where the toxic materials were found. Readings in…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Alex Jackson of the Annapolis Capital talk about the Capital's six-part multimedia project on the health of the Chesapeake Bay and…

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has turned back the farm industry’s efforts to toss out the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay clean-up…

The City Council’s vote cleared the way – mostly -- for what Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake calls the opportunity of a generation – the billion dollar…

WYPR's Fraser Smith and Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun talk about the state's delay of new farm runoff regulations and what the decision means for both…

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

A report released last month by the Waterfront Partnership gave Baltimore's harbor a grade of C-minus. Not good, but better than many in the city may have…

The Baltimore City Council is expected to give final approval Monday evening to new fees to raise money to upgrade stormwater systems.City residents will…

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.

Science education standards, issued in April, recommend teaching climate change for the first time. But one nonprofit says kids aren't learning enough, soon enough, about how their world will change in the coming decades. The group aims to remedy this with presentations in schools nationwide.