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 Story
The Audubon Naturalist Society, one of the oldest independent environmental groups in the Chesapeake Bay region, announced it will be changing… Read Story
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 Story
In Virginia, the state environmental agency this spring created an environmental justice office, tasking it with developing a plan to address … Read Story
William Tayloe Murphy, Jr., a towering figure in Virginia’s environmental protection efforts who spearheaded the passage of numerous pieces of… Read Story
The state-federal partnership overseeing the Chesapeake Bay cleanup has released details on how it plans to increase diversity and inclusion w… Read Story
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 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 Story
The homesite where famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman likely spent time with her father before escaping slavery and leading others to freedom h… Read Story
In the neighborhood straddling MD Route 26 in West Baltimore, just north of the Mondawmin Mall, residents grapple daily with dirty air, vehicl… Read Story
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 Story
Dana Aunkst, who has served as director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Office since December 2018, announced tha… Read Story
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 Story
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 Story
John Naylor eased his 16-foot fiberglass canoe into the Susquehanna River near a small archipelago of forested and ever-changing mudflat islan… Read Story
Growing threats to the environment — from warming temperatures to melting icecaps, rising seas to more intense storms and floods — have increa… Read Story
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 Story
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 Story
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 Story
During its long and storied history, the Audubon Naturalist Society has counted among its active members such environmental luminaries as form… 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
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
Despite longstanding government alerts about the potential dangers of eating fish caught in the Anacostia River, some anglers aren’t getting t… 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
Growing up in Newark, NJ, Atiya Wells didn’t really connect much with nature. 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
Three decades of discussion about the Chesapeake Bay having national park status could come to fruition under a fresh campaign. Read Story
A Maryland man has become the first person believed to have traveled the 203-mile length of the Chesapeake Bay on a standup paddleboard. Read Story
In 1619, a privateer ship sailed into the Chesapeake Bay, carrying a transatlantic shipment of human cargo from Africa. At Point Comfort in so… 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
Lynne Napoli of Boiling Springs, PA, lives near the Appalachian Trail, normally her refuge for quiet mental sustenance. 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
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
The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins June 1, but someone forgot to tell Arthur. 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 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
In a muddy bend of the Nansemond River, hidden amid Suffolk’s bustling business district, lie the rotting remains of old wooden boats. Read Story
The coronavirus pandemic that’s keeping many people inside across the Chesapeake Bay watershed is also limiting some outdoor recreational oppo… Read Story
The Audubon Naturalist Society hosted its third Taking Nature Black conference on Feb. 27 in Chevy Chase, MD. And for the third time since the… Read Story
Watermen have no restaurants that can buy their catches. Help for farmers who want to install runoff controls has been sharply curtailed. Stre… Read Story
An idea to make the Anacostia River swimmable — by putting a pool in it — is far from dead in the water. But that doesn’t mean residents will … Read Story
Advocates say the Chesapeake Bay would not be where it is today without the influence of former Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, who pushed fo… Read Story
One of the biggest changes to the face of agriculture and forestry these days in Chesapeake Bay states is women. That new demographic is leadi… Read Story
Eighteen dollars and 16 cents. Read Story
For the last 48 years, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has believed that the best results come from bringing people together to find commo… Read Story
Each spring after the fertile fields have been planted in Lancaster County, PA, more than 400 Plain Sect children and their families gather on… Read Story
For many dairy farmers in Chesapeake Bay states, the financial screws keep tightening. Read Story
In World War II, the U.S. Navy captured a German submarine off the East Coast. But where in the world was the sub base that posed such an alar… Read Story
The majestic Lower Susquehanna River, its vistas, wooded hills, sculpted potholes — in the river rocks, not roads — and its place in shaping U… Read Story