Seagrasses Drop Sharply In Md., Va. Coastal Bays
Deteriorating water quality and summer heat combined to kill off more than a third of seagrasses in coastal bays along the Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia officials announced Tuesday.
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Deteriorating water quality and summer heat combined to kill off more than a third of seagrasses in coastal bays along the Eastern Shore, Maryland and Virginia officials announced Tuesday.
Dominion Resources is filing suit challenging a claim by the Sierra Club, which says it has the right to block the company's plans to export liquefied natural gas from a southern Maryland terminal.
Four connecting river trails will be designated as historic components of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail at a ceremony.
Trails along four major Chesapeake Bay tributaries are being added to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
Environmental problems in the Chesapeake Bay and how they can affect human health are the subject of a two-day conference in Baltimore.
The Oyster Recovery Partnership says it has begun its planting season by placing 31 million oysters on nearly 10 acres in Harris Creek.
The costs of restoring the Chesapeake Bay could be cut as much as 80 percent through trading of pollution credits, according to a new study.
The Army is investigating a spike in phosphorus levels in treated wastewater from Fort Detrick in Frederick.
The Sierra Club said Thursday it will try to block an energy company's plan to export liquefied natural gas to find new markets for the drilling boom that has flooded the Mid-Atlantic with natural gas.
There's a growing problem in the Inner Harbor. An algae bloom is turning the water brown.
Bills to protect wetlands, migratory bird habitat and restore the Delaware River basin are among measures to be discussed at a Senate hearing chaired by Sen. Ben Cardin.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is defending the model used by the Environmental Protection Agency to create the federal agency's restoration strategy for the bay.
As comebacks go, it's off the charts. Researchers are finding a population explosion of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.
Wild swings in the weather in 2011 have left the Chesapeake Bay in its worst shape in years.
Maryland's Board of Public Works has approved more than $37 million for sewage treatment plant upgrades and wetlands construction.
Heavy rains and a hot summer harmed the Chesapeake Bay's health last year, earning it the second worst grade on a yearly report card issued Tuesday by the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science.
When Wilbur "Turner" Messick Jr. walks into his shop door on Texas Road, he walks into history. He may be the only man in the nation to continue a unique family business begun in 1859.
Crabs are crawling early out of the mud in the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, and that's only the beginning of changes expected from the warm, dry winter in the nation's largest estuary.
Even though she guided a controversial plan to regulate septic systems and helped hike a tax to support Chesapeake Bay cleanup, Delegate Maggie McIntosh could not work miracles for all the bills that came through her committee before the Maryland General Assembly adjourned Monday night.
The Army Corps of Engineers unveiled its restoration plan for Chesapeake oysters on Tuesday, a bay-wide look that officials said moves past piecemeal efforts and selects targets for large-scale efforts.
Marylanders can likely expect a hike in their annual sewer bills.
Volunteers are being sought to help clean the Patuxent River.
Federal environmental officials say New York missed the deadline for filing its latest Chesapeake Bay restoration plan.
The Environmental Protection Agency says restoration of the Chesapeake Bay is ahead of schedule for two of three key pollutants, although the cleanup is being held up in some areas by tight budgeting.
Tens of millions of gallons. That's how much raw sewage has flowed into the Patapsco River this week.
