With several hours of daylight to spare, Ronnie Robbins and his son, Jason, had already docked their 36-foot deadrise workboat on Hooper’s Isl… Read Story
More pollution has been sweeping past the Conowingo Dam since its reservoir filled with sediment a decade ago, allowing millions of pounds of … Read Story
A decision on whether to allow the Wegmans grocery chain to build a $175 million regional food distribution complex impacting forested wetland… Read Story
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state … Read Story
Several Virginia conservation organizations have joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn an 11th-hour Trump administration rule change that eases… Read Story
During its long and storied history, the Audubon Naturalist Society has counted among its active members such environmental luminaries as form… Read Story
The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has stagnated the last two years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation reported Monday, with upticks in wate… Read Story
Under a historic 2010 agreement, the states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin, along with the District of Columbia, embarked on an ambitiou… Read Story
After having made progress on a number of fronts during a Trump administration that was generally hostile to environmental spending and regula… Read Story
What are the chances of getting 30 different landowners to participate in a 2.5-mile stream restoration project in suburban Lancaster, PA? Read Story
A Maryland advisory group has called for extending restrictions on the use of manure to fertilize farm fields, even though some warn the anti-… Read Story
Since 2016, the Chesapeake Conservancy has pioneered the use of highly detailed images of landscapes taken from low-flying airplanes to pinpoi… Read Story
What isn’t known about the 400-year history of African Americans and the Chesapeake region could fill the Bay itself to overflowing. Read Story
A contentious $346 million project to expand natural gas pipelines and infrastructure in Virginia took another hit last week when the State Co… Read Story
In the first major test of Virginia’s historic environmental justice law, the state’s air board Dec. 3 approved a U.S. Navy proposal to build … Read Story
After a decade of steady improvement, the Potomac River’s progress seems to be plateauing. That’s according to the latest letter grade — a B… Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay has lost one of its most vociferous advocates with the Dec. 6 death of former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Read Story
The Susquehanna River has the most flood prone basin east of the Mississippi. And Binghamton, NY, located entirely in a floodplain at the conf… Read Story
Dozens of power plants, factories and other facilities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed were given latitude to skip pollution-monitoring de… Read Story
The Maryland Board of Public Works approved Dec. 2 a wetlands permit for an Eastern Shore natural gas pipeline, but critics say its constructi… Read Story
Unlike most people, Sam Buggs actually looks forward to getting his electricity bill. Read Story
Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality plans to fill a new environmental justice director position by early 2021 — despite budget shor… Read Story
Just five decades ago, Elliott Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was a global hotspot for avid birders who wanted to add the diminutive Easte… Read Story
An incomplete list of the adjectives used to describe the tidal portion of Virginia’s Rappahannock River over the years: free-flowing, fun, la… Read Story
Federal attorneys are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from environmentalists and several Chesapeake Bay watershed states that aims to force the U… Read Story
Several new scientific discoveries give hope that eastern hemlocks will not go the way of chestnut, elm and ash trees and largely disappear fr… Read Story
Six years ago, a young, emaciated sei whale that normally inhabits the deep waters of the Atlantic was spotted swimming erratically in tidal r… Read Story
Environmentalists and scientists call it the “lost” branch. Read Story
Despite longstanding government alerts about the potential dangers of eating fish caught in the Anacostia River, some anglers aren’t getting t… Read Story
Bald eagles don’t need a long runway to take flight, but they appear to enjoy hanging out on one anyway. Read Story
More testing has found so-called “forever chemicals” in a striped bass, blue crab and oyster from the Chesapeake Bay, as well as in drinking w… Read Story
Blue catfish, the invasive fish with a big appetite that is overwhelming many Chesapeake Bay tributaries, is probably here to stay. Read Story
With a deadly pandemic racing across the country and beginning to surface in the surrounding community last spring, the tiny Maryland nonprofi… Read Story
Robert Johnson spends as much time watching the weather forecast as he does harvesting oysters these days. Read Story
A new search tool involving not much more than filling a container of water is revolutionizing how scientists detect and keep track of threate… Read Story
Stiff opposition to a proposed $175 million Wegmans regional food distribution complex in Hanover County, VA, has spurred officials to seek mo… Read Story
It’s long been known that climate change would make the job of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay more difficult. Read Story
A Norwegian company’s plans to bring land-based salmon farming to Maryland’s Eastern Shore hit a snag Thursday night when one of the sites it … Read Story
Growing up in Newark, NJ, Atiya Wells didn’t really connect much with nature. Read Story
The Hogan administration is moving to block Maryland oyster farmers from leasing spots in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries where there’s… Read Story
Rancor and partisan bickering may be de rigueur in politics these days, but the Chesapeake Bay Commission abides in a bubble of amicable colla… Read Story
In a case that aimed to test the enforceability of Maryland’s forest conservation law, a state court judge has thrown out a lawsuit challengin… Read Story
Despite Maryland’s ambitious commitment to renewable energy, solar power continues to generate friction across the state. Large utility-scale … Read Story
The cost to reduce the added nutrient pollution spilling over the Conowingo Dam now has a price tag: at least $53 million a year. Read Story
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 transport… Read Story
A swath of forests in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York and West Virginia store much more harmful carbon than surr… Read Story
One of the Chesapeake Bay watershed’s most stunning natural spectacles is at a crossroads, and officials are asking the public to help steer i… Read Story
A pair of professors at Randolph-Macon College near Richmond likes to challenge their students with real-world problems. When they asked the J… Read Story
Striped bass can’t get a break, it seems. With their East Coast population in decline from overfishing, the migratory species had mixed succes… Read Story
The Trump administration’s latest move to ease regulatory requirements on the nation’s coal-burning power plants is expected to have limited i… Read Story