Chesapeake Bay summer water temperatures are increasing by nearly a half degree Fahrenheit per decade and rising nearly twice as fast as globa… Read Story
Rising seas are engulfing Tangier Island so quickly that most of its remaining residents may be forced to flee the low-lying Chesapeake Bay co… Read Story
Holly Gaff and Tori Rose were hunting for ticks in a pine needle-strewn forest in a nature preserve on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Their first h… Read Story
Until recently, the West River United Methodist Center had a problem. The 45-acre retreat and camp facility in Shady Side, MD, south of Annapo… Read Story
Climate experts have long warned that rising seas could add more destructive power to hurricane-whipped storm surges. But a new study centered… Read Story
The governors of nearly all the states in the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin have inked a bipartisan pledge with the federal government to keep… Read Story
It seemed like an inauspicious start to a morning of birding. Read Story
Climate change is clearly observable in every region of the planet, and the window is closing for nations to take actions that would stem the … Read Story
After hitting a temporary roadblock, the Hogan administration’s hotly disputed “traffic relief plan” for widening congested highways in Maryla… Read Story
One of Maryland’s most recognizable waterfront townscapes is getting harder to see. Portions of the Annapolis City Dock are underwater 50–60 d… Read Story
Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of ca… Read Story
The Potomac Conservancy has released an analysis of the “new climate reality” that is already dawning on the Potomac River watershed, hoping t… Read Story
Throwing food away is more than wasteful. When it gets buried in a landfill, it generates methane, a climate-warming greenhouse gas many times… Read Story
Deal Island is disappearing beneath the Chesapeake Bay from the inside out. Read Story
When Bruce Vogt launched his oyster farm a decade ago, he opted to raise his bivalves in a creek near the mouth of the York River because of i… Read Story
Maryland lawmakers failed again this year to come together to strengthen the state’s goal for reducing climate-altering greenhouse gas emissio… Read Story
With the Chesapeake Bay as a backdrop, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on world leaders April 19 to reduce greenhouse gas emissi… Read Story
Everyone who lives or works in the Washington, DC area knows that driving on the Capital Beltway can be a bumper-to-bumper nightmare, and not … Read Story
A visit to the Tidal Basin in the District of Columbia should deliver sweeping views of cherry trees heavy with pink and white blooms this tim… Read Story
Pennsylvania officials today announced what they say is the largest purchase of solar energy ever by a state, committing to buy enough electri… Read Story
The Maryland Senate voted Friday to ramp up Maryland’s efforts to fight climate change over the next decade, passing a sweeping bill that call… Read Story
It was a bad sign last spring when Bob Orth answered the phone and the words spilled out from the other end. “Where did all the grass go?” The… Read Story
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state … 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
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
It’s long been known that climate change would make the job of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay more difficult. 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
Seas are rising. The land is sinking. And hurricanes seem to pose a greater threat with every passing season. Read Story
As climate change fuels flooding all over the country, one coping strategy is managed retreat: Local governments use federal funds to buy up w… Read Story
Historic Ellicott City has twice been ravaged by floods in recent years, but it escaped a repeat recently from Tropical Storm Isaias. While ot… 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
Overwhelmed by record high flows and warm temperatures, the Chesapeake Bay’s vast underwater meadows last year suffered their largest drop sin… 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
On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, an evergreen forest that’s never ventured so far north is slowly gaining a toehold in fields where until recently… Read Story
In a legislative session cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, Maryland lawmakers approved a ban on an agricultural pesticide and passed a ha… Read Story
In Virginia, climate change is about as welcome as ants at a picnic. But across a portion of the state’s southeast, ants are part of the problem. Read Story
The Chesapeake Bay and other environmental issues had more floor time — and legislative changes — than they have in years during Virginia’s 60… Read Story
Climate change will fuel heavier downpours and deeper floodwaters on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, according to one of the first detailed looks at… Read Story
If it has seemed warmer than usual lately in the mid-Atlantic, you aren’t wrong. Read Story
This is the third article in a 3-part series, A sea change in action: Bay states plan for future climate, providing an overview of state-level… Read Story
This is the second in a 3-part series, A sea change in action: Bay states plan for future climate, providing an overview of state-level climat… Read Story
This is the first in a 3-part series, A sea change in action: Bay states plan for future climate, providing an overview of state-level climate… Read Story
As rising seas drive saltwater farther inland, Maryland officials are urging local governments, drinking water suppliers, farmers and others t… Read Story
Maryland and Virginia lawmakers are gearing up for renewed debate in the coming weeks over renewable energy and how their states should deal w… Read Story
In coastal Virginia, sea level rise often steals the headlines as the culprit behind increased flooding. But there’s at least one other climat… Read Story
When the tide bubbles up from storm sewers, turning her neighborhood into a Western Hemisphere version of Venice, Christina Laughlin starts na… Read Story
The 12-month “water year” that ended September 30 had the highest river flows into the Chesapeake Bay since such monitoring began 82 years ago… Read Story
Autumn leaf peepers in Chesapeake Bay states may be disappointed by more muted colors because of climate change, scientists say. Read Story
This is the way the Fox Island Environmental Education Center ends: not with a gale or wrecking ball, but with the slow inevitability of wind … Read Story
Throughout history, wherever there has been industry, there has been a waterway. Read Story