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As a third-grade student, I remember looking at the poster of the Chesapeake Bay that hung on my classroom wall while my teacher talked about … Read Story

The climate crisis is intensifying. The most recent report out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has outlined cl… Read Story

With all due respect to the songwriting genius of Sir Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I don’t think the Beatles were thinking about natural su… Read Story

As we continue our crusade as stewards to conserve the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, it is impossible not to think of the 18 million peo… Read Story

There’s a good chance, if you use a gas-powered lawn mower, that maintaining your lawn is worse for the environment than your morning commute.… Read Story

In all of the discussions of toll lanes for the American Legion Bridge, which carries Interstate 495 over the Potomac River west of Washington… Read Story

It is no longer possible to reject the fact that Earth’s climate is warming and that burning fossil fuels is the primary cause. It must also b… Read Story

The science has been clear for more than 35 years; we know what we need to do to restore the Chesapeake Bay. What’s clear today is that we are… Read Story

As the Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort has continued to languish without any real progress, we keep hearing a familiar tune from Maryland’s farm… Read Story

A generation of Maryland farmers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have tried to meet two goals: produce the food our growing country needs and … Read Story

As the 2022 session of the Maryland General Assembly gets under way, a coalition of environmentally minded lawmakers is expected to propose le… Read Story

In 1993, I began working at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, eager to make my mark. The attention-getting, prehistoric-looking Atlantic s… Read Story

I am an environmental outdoor education teacher in Kent County, MD. My teaching focuses on the human effort to live compatibly with nature’s d… Read Story

Climate change has been called an existential crisis, and rightly so. It is urgent and global — a fact that drew prominent world leaders and t… Read Story

The Maryland Park Service describes the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a driving route that meanders through 125 miles of countrys… Read Story

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is surrounded by the forests and marshes of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which prot… Read Story

Several years ago when walking back to my car after a short visit to a park, I noticed that the steep, roughly 70-foot-high hillside bordering… Read Story

How we adapt our built infrastructure to the challenge of sea level rise is at the forefront of climate change discussions, especially in the … Read Story

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency serves a vital role as we coordinate the efforts of federal, state and local partners to protect and … Read Story

Chesapeake anglers and paddlers rejoice! In 2020, the Chesapeake Bay Program and its partners added 12 access points where the public can conn… Read Story

The best strategy for meeting the pollution reduction goals in the Chesapeake Bay’s Clean Water Blueprint (formally called the Bay’s total max… Read Story

If you live near a chemical plant in Maryland, you might assume the state is taking the necessary steps to ensure the facility’s operations ar… Read Story

The many recent tributes marking the passing of former U.S. Sen. John Warner are rightfully long on superlatives. Senator Warner has been desc… Read Story

June brings a lot of good things: cookouts, sunny weather, pool parties, ice cream. It also happens to be National Dairy Month, and the Allian… Read Story

Last year, I worked for the Chesapeake Conservation Corps, a team of young adults who gain environmental experience while working for a year a… Read Story

One Saturday morning, a group of trainees reported bright and early to a 6-acre property off the Potomac River. The participants had at least … Read Story

The region lost a champion for the Chesapeake Bay in November 2020, when Allan Quant of Lewisburg, PA, succumbed to cancer after a courageous,… Read Story

Striped bass, also known as rockfish, are arguably the most economically important finfish on the Atlantic seaboard. According to a 2005 econo… Read Story

Forested buffers along waterways could go a long way toward improving local water quality, mitigating climate change and saving the Chesapeake… Read Story

I’m writing in response to the Bay Journal article, As chicken waste piles up on Delmarva, a ‘solution’ stirs controversy. Read Story

In looking for lessons to apply to the cleanup of the Anacostia River, we need turn only to the nearby Chesapeake Bay. That restoration effort… Read Story

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend”  — Henri Bergson, French philosopher Read Story

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s State of the Bay Report came out in early January. The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science… Read Story

It’s hard to find a Chesapeake Bay watershed resident whose eyes don’t light up at the mention of striped bass, or rockfish. Read Story

People say timing is everything, and perhaps they are correct. No matter how great an idea may be, it may be doomed if citizen attention is fo… Read Story

In his opinion column, “Where solar arrays shouldn’t go is as critical as where they do go” (December 2020), Lee Epstein of the Chesapeake Bay… Read Story

As a stream ecologist trained in the early 1980s, seeing the world of stream restoration evolve during the last 40 years has been exciting. Af… Read Story

When Mike Kemp arrived in the Chesapeake Bay region in the late 1970s, it was at the dawn of an era of discovery — one that the new Chesapeake… Read Story

Nearly a year into this global pandemic, Maryland’s school districts and families are still grappling with how to safely educate our students. Read Story

Solar power is coming to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and it is past time to prepare. Read Story

The first step to fixing a problem is recognizing that you have one. Read Story

Tim Wheeler’s article, Stream restoration techniques draw pushback, spotlights some of the growing body of published research and citizen resi… Read Story

In our community on the banks of the Susquehanna River, doing our part to protect the Chesapeake Bay is ingrained in our way of life. We rely … Read Story

Virginians reading the Bay Journal’s recent article, Bird’s return to Hampton Road island defies expectations, celebrating recent efforts to a… Read Story

“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see en… Read Story

Partners in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are familiar with the monumental challenges of a pandemic that crosses every border and threatens our… Read Story

"Missed again?” That was the discouraging headline on the front page of the September Bay Journal. Karl Blankenship’s article explains that th… Read Story

Environmental injustice comes in many forms. Throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, there are stories of sewage backing up from city pipes i… Read Story

The coronavirus pandemic has focused our attention on the link between cleanliness and the avoidance of disease. People are sanitizing their h… Read Story

Last year at this time, our priorities for local governments were completely different from what they are now. 2020 has been a whirlwind of li… Read Story