Electric bikes, one of the hottest trends in recreation, can be a godsend for people getting on in years or with medical impairments, helping … Read StoryE-bikes raise management concerns in some parks, public forests
A little over a year ago, Hilary Harp Falk took over as president and CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, becoming only the third leader of … Read StoryChesapeake Bay Foundation leader calls for shifts in Bay cleanup
Delaware’s environmental agency has hired its first environmental justice coordinator, elevating an official within the department who had bee… Read StoryDelaware picks first environmental justice coordinator
As a recently retired surgeon, Howard Berg has always had an uneasy relationship with death. But the four-year process of opening a cemetery a… Read StoryOptions for ‘green’ burials grow in Chesapeake region
The Chesapeake Bay Commission, a panel that represents state legislators from across the Bay region, has named Anna Killius as its new executi… Read StoryChesapeake Bay Commission names James River advocate as new director
On a chilly, sunny morning in mid-November, community leaders of Turner Station, MD, grabbed shovels to finish planting the last of 140 “witne… Read Story‘Witness trees’ signal hope in flood-prone MD community
Donald McEachin, a U.S. Congressman who fought for environmental justice and clean water for Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay, died unexpectedl… Read StoryVirginia loses Congressman, environmental champion, in McEachin
Nicholas A. “Nick” DiPasquale, who as director of the Chesapeake Bay Program oversaw creation of the agreement that guides today’s restoration… Read StoryChesapeake loses a champion, Nick DiPasquale
A formal proposal to create a Chesapeake National Recreation Area is ready to move forward, according to advocates in Congress. Read StoryChesapeake National Recreation Area, after decades in discussion, heads to Congress
Not long after Ann Swanson began working to restore the Chesapeake Bay, she found herself speaking about it to a group of grade school student… Read StoryAfter 35 years, Chesapeake Bay Commission director hands off the baton
A Chesapeake Bay workforce training program borne out of the Great Recession is expanding its footprint — and focus — to address emerging challenges. Read StoryChesapeake Conservation Corps delivers results – and expands
Students attending Hampton City Schools in Virginia live on a peninsula bounded by the James and York rivers that juts into the Chesapeake Bay… Read StoryVirginia outdoor education program receives national award
Inside Sandy Point State Park’s newly renovated nature center hangs a map of the body of water that laps onto the shoreline just a few dozen p… Read StoryNew Bayfront nature center amplifies Hispanic outreach at popular Maryland park
Ann Swanson, the longtime executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, is retiring in November after more than 34 years managing the t… Read StoryLongtime director of Chesapeake Bay Commission to retire
Kandis Boyd, a former federal scientist and agency senior manager who most recently advised the National Science Foundation on diversity, equi… Read StoryKandis Boyd, federal scientist and manager, tapped to helm Chesapeake Bay Program
Growing up near the shipyards that snake along Norfolk’s waterfront, Kalen Anderson pictured himself working there some day as a welder. He pu… Read StoryHow a Werowocomoco internship helped connect a Native youth with his heritage
With seven volunteers gathered around him in Pennsylvania’s Michaux State Forest, Tom Moutsos apologized in advance for ruining the group’s fu… Read StoryVolunteers needed in Pennsylvania to help maintain trails strained by record use
“Bienvenidos al Rio Anacostia!” Read Story‘Defensores’ broadens Bay watershed work – in Spanish
Time was running out to save the last vestige of a rollicking African American getaway on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Read StoryHistorically Black beach to be saved as Annapolis parkland
Pennsylvania is updating its 21-year-old environmental justice policy to include communities located near natural gas drilling and those dispr… Read StoryPennsylvania updates environmental justice policy
Taking a walk in the woods isn’t as simple as it should be for residents of Ward 8 in the District of Columbia. Read StoryNonprofit steps into gap for DC woodland stewardship
Every week for almost 36 years, a group of mostly older adults with a Pennsylvania Trout Unlimited chapter have performed an unheralded but vi… Read StoryTrout Unlimited group keeps fish habitat going for 36 years
On a stretch of the Potomac River flanked by multimillion-dollar homes is an 8-acre island featuring a rustic cabin — and a lot of potential. Read StoryCommunity volunteers breathe new life into Potomac River island
Those sneakers are going to be hard to fill. Read StoryBernie Fowler, tireless Maryland advocate for clean water, dies
Will Baker never intended to become an environmental activist. He studied art in college and planned to become an architect, like his older br… Read StoryAfter 45 years, CBF's Baker reflects on the Bay at a crossroads
The Audubon Naturalist Society, one of the oldest independent environmental groups in the Chesapeake Bay region, announced it will be changing… Read StoryMD environmental group to drop ‘Audubon’ from name
Hilary Harp Falk, a top executive with the nation’s largest conservation group, has been tapped to be the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s next pre… Read StoryHilary Harp Falk named new president of Chesapeake Bay Foundation
In Virginia, the state environmental agency this spring created an environmental justice office, tasking it with developing a plan to address … Read StoryProgress on environmental justice draws criticism in Maryland
William Tayloe Murphy, Jr., a towering figure in Virginia’s environmental protection efforts who spearheaded the passage of numerous pieces of… Read StoryTayloe Murphy, a champion of Virginia’s environment, dies
The state-federal partnership overseeing the Chesapeake Bay cleanup has released details on how it plans to increase diversity and inclusion w… Read StoryChesapeake cleanup partners seek input on diversity, inclusion
When Machicomoco State Park opened April 16, it was ordained as Virginia’s 40th state park. But in Stephen Adkins’ eyes, it was the first — th… Read StoryMachicomoco State Park puts Virginia Indians at center of story
The Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, the Talbot County, MD, nonprofit that rose from the ashes of a family tragedy to become a leader in e… Read StoryPhillips Wharf Center closes after pandemic saps its bottom line
The homesite where famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman likely spent time with her father before escaping slavery and leading others to freedom h… Read StoryHarriet Tubman historic site discovered at Blackwater wildlife refuge
In the neighborhood straddling MD Route 26 in West Baltimore, just north of the Mondawmin Mall, residents grapple daily with dirty air, vehicl… Read StoryMapping environmental justice just a few clicks away
A railroad running through the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was once the lifeblood of a string of small towns along a winding fork o… Read StoryFormer Shenandoah Valley railway could become 50-mile trail
Dana Aunkst, who has served as director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Office since December 2018, announced tha… Read StoryEPA Chesapeake Bay Program director to step down
Nature has a way, it seems, of getting people to shed their cares for a spell and relate both to it and each other. Read StoryBaltimore church converts neglected urban forest into ‘peace park’
He wants to shut down a trash incinerator, reduce his city’s waste to zero, increase the amount of affordable housing and get abandoned mattre… Read StoryIn the shadow of an incinerator, Carlos Sanchez-Gonzalez works for a cleaner world
John Naylor eased his 16-foot fiberglass canoe into the Susquehanna River near a small archipelago of forested and ever-changing mudflat islan… Read StoryFighting the plastics plague, one canoe-full at a time
Growing threats to the environment — from warming temperatures to melting icecaps, rising seas to more intense storms and floods — have increa… Read StoryVirginia students take on solar energy challenge
Pennsylvania was one of the top 10 states receiving the most dollars from outdoor recreation in 2019, ranking sixth in the nation with $13 bil… Read StoryPennsylvania ranks 6th in nation for its outdoor recreation economy
Will Baker, who’s led the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for the last 40 years, announced last week that he plans to step down at the end of 2021 a… Read StoryChesapeake Bay Foundation leader Will Baker retiring after 40 years
As a kid growing up on Bald Top Mountain above the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, Van Wagner would look down during times of low water to … Read StoryDozens of ancient eel weirs uncovered in Susquehanna
During its long and storied history, the Audubon Naturalist Society has counted among its active members such environmental luminaries as form… Read Story‘Naturally Latinos’ conference fights for the environment – and against stereotypes
What isn’t known about the 400-year history of African Americans and the Chesapeake region could fill the Bay itself to overflowing. Read StoryAfrican American history focus of Bay mapping effort
The Chesapeake Bay has lost one of its most vociferous advocates with the Dec. 6 death of former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes. Read StoryFormer U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, early and tenacious Bay champion, dies
Despite longstanding government alerts about the potential dangers of eating fish caught in the Anacostia River, some anglers aren’t getting t… Read StoryNew recipe: Fish consumption advisory substitutes safety for scare
With a deadly pandemic racing across the country and beginning to surface in the surrounding community last spring, the tiny Maryland nonprofi… Read Story‘We have to pivot’: Environmental ed during COVID-19
Growing up in Newark, NJ, Atiya Wells didn’t really connect much with nature. Read StoryBaltimore naturalist transforms neglected land into ‘BLISS’
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 StoryShadows of a bustling past haunt Appomattox’s quiet shores