One of every 3 miles of streams and rivers in Pennsylvania has impaired water quality, according to a draft report detailing the state’s lates… Read Story
Normally, fisheries management aims to set harvest limits at levels that sustain the population of a particular species. Read Story
It springs to life each year in freshwater ponds and lakes as temperatures rise. By the middle of summer, the foliage is so thick and bushy at… Read Story
One of Maryland’s fastest growing counties has moved to halt the loss of its woodlands to development, adopting what environmentalists are hai… Read Story
The U.S. House on Wednesday followed the Senate’s lead and overwhelmingly passed historic public lands legislation to guarantee federal funds … Read Story
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has made environmental justice a cornerstone of his administration. He revived his predecessor’s Council on Enviro… Read Story
It was a good idea at the time. In the mid-1800s, Pennsylvania’s cities and towns wanted to end the stench and slippery surfaces caused by ope… Read Story
New testing has detected “forever chemicals” in the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland, though at levels much lower than those reported the… Read Story
Those who live near the water around the Chesapeake Bay probably know this already, but now it’s official: Last year saw a lot more “sunny day… Read Story
Charles Morris, 77, can remember as a young boy picking berries before dawn in the deep woods off Sliding Hill Road in the rural, historic Bla… Read Story
When the mercury rises in midsummer, water quality in the Chesapeake Bay — as well as its streams and rivers — matters as much to people as it… Read Story
From Virginia to New York, residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed were hit with a deluge of water in mid-July 2018. And it wasn’t just anot… Read Story
Overwhelmed by record high flows and warm temperatures, the Chesapeake Bay’s vast underwater meadows last year suffered their largest drop sin… Read Story
Lynne Napoli of Boiling Springs, PA, lives near the Appalachian Trail, normally her refuge for quiet mental sustenance. Read Story
The big energy companies behind the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced July 5 they are dropping the controversial project, blaming leg… Read Story
Nearly half of all gamefish in freshwater lakes, streams and rivers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed may be unsafe to eat because of high level… Read Story
Chris Landis, a seventh-generation dairy and organic poultry farmer in Lancaster County, PA, had been up until 1 a.m. cutting hay by headlight… Read Story
Scientists are expecting this year’s Chesapeake Bay “dead zone” to be slightly less than its long-term average — but a wide swath of the Bay w… Read Story
The Assateague Island National Seashore along the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia and Maryland and the Appalachian Trail farther inland. Read Story
A major roadblock to the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been cleared by the U.S. Supreme Court, but other hurdles and legal c… Read Story
Restaurants, grocery stores and other food vendors in Maryland are getting three more months to comply with a statewide ban on foam containers. Read Story
Environmentalists are slamming a West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection proposal to loosen water-quality safeguards on more than… Read Story
Deep in the bowels of a cave in the hills of Augusta County, VA, lay pools of brilliant blue water. Snowflake-like mineral deposits floated on… Read Story
Despite having fewer days to work, Maryland watermen harvested nearly twice as many wild oysters last season as they did the previous year, st… Read Story
As he has dozens of times since stumbling into the benefits of cover cropping and no-till farming nearly 50 years ago, Pennsylvania farmer Ler… Read Story
Virginians calling in to the State Corporation Commission on May 12 pulled few punches: “environmental racism,” “sacrifice zone,” an “unfair a… Read Story
Virginia’s menhaden fishery is no longer under threat of a federal moratorium. Read Story
Planting a tree can be its own reward. But one Chesapeake Bay watershed organization transformed the simple act into one of the most prestigio… Read Story
Efforts to rebuild shad populations in the Chesapeake Bay watershed took a beating. Water quality went unchecked for the longest time in more … Read Story
Maryland environmental regulators have filed a federal lawsuit against the owner of the closed Luke paper mill in Allegany County, accusing it… Read Story
The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1, but someone forgot to tell Arthur. Read Story
The federal government is steering $6 million in grants to help states curb agricultural runoff in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The lion’s sh… Read Story
A reddish-brown patina has overtaken the Mid-Chesapeake Bay and several Maryland rivers that feed into the estuary. A stench hangs in the air … Read Story
American shad just couldn’t get a break this spring in their efforts to repopulate the Susquehanna River. Read Story
There are plenty of reasons to stay out of some Chesapeake Bay waters, particularly after a heavy rain. When stormwater hits local waterways, … Read Story
A survey that historically has guided blue crab management in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries shows the population has dipped by nearly… Read Story
Oysters are filter feeders that can help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, right? Many have seen the various web videos showing a dozen or so bival… Read Story
When the Goodloe family bought a bucolic, 216-acre property in Stafford County, VA, officials were planning to build a beltway around the bust… Read Story
The 37-year-old Chesapeake Bay restoration effort descended into finger pointing and threats of lawsuits on Monday, as the region struggles wi… Read Story
Amid the coronavirus outbreak that sidelined almost all other field work this spring, a handful of Maryland biologists were dispatched to the … Read Story
A widely used pesticide found to pose health risks for children and wildlife is due to be phased out in Maryland next year, but the state’s la… Read Story
Striped bass that stay year-round in the Chesapeake Bay are dying at nearly twice the rate of those that migrate each year to the Atlantic Oce… Read Story
Over three decades, barges will unload the same amount of dredged material along the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay off Maryland’s Eastern Shore… Read Story
In the late 1970s, the treetops of the James River looked like a ghost town. Despite plenty of suitable habitat where bald eagles could have b… Read Story
By this time in a typical year, the main fish lift at Conowingo Dam would be busy hoisting thousands of fish daily over the 94-foot high barri… Read Story
When event planners huddled last fall at the Baltimore Convention Center for a workshop on sustainable conferences, they chowed down on locall… Read Story
Human life has been on a near-universal lockdown since the coronavirus pandemic first gripped the country in late March. It has been a crushin… Read Story
Pennsylvania, under criticism by fellow Chesapeake Bay drainage states for being far behind in meeting pollution reduction goals, has turned t… Read Story
The purse net fishing season for Atlantic menhaden kicked off May 4 in Virginia, but with a much-reduced limit on how many of the commercially… Read Story
A six-lane highway clogged with traffic and exhaust. A massive waste incinerator that measures its pollution in tons. A phalanx of smoke-spewi… Read Story