Maryland's Chesapeake Bay sees concerning drop in blue crab population
Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is seeing a concerning drop in its population of blue crabs, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is seeing a concerning drop in its population of blue crabs, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
Progress in teaching environmental education in Maryland has rebounded after a slight decline during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Trump administration's plans to propose budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that could jeopardize efforts to restore the health of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to pass the Chesapeake National Recreation Act, which designates parts of the Chesapeake Bay as a National Park Service (NPS) property.
The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released by scientists: a C-plus.
The man, a worker on the Abtenauer, a bulk carrier cargo ship, was injured after falling more than 10 feet from a ladder.
The hand-sized tooth is believed to have belonged to an ancient "transoceanic superpredator" shark that was three times the size of a great white.
They look like scruffy, oversize rats armed with large, beaver-like orange teeth and flat noses. They're called nutria, and they've ravaged thousands of acres of marshland on the Delmarva Peninsula that stretches along the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
The aftermath of the tornado that struck Smith Island is still visible two months after it carved a destructive path through the sparsely populated Chesapeake Bay archipelago.
The assessment comes just days before a meeting in Washington of the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council, a high-powered consortium.
Researchers are predicting this summer's dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay will be smaller than the long-term average taken between 1985 and 2021, according to environmental staff.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust will be steering over $1 million toward 13 environmental projects in Maryland and its surrounding states, according to trust staff. Nine of those projects are in Maryland.
Maryland is undertaking a $28 million study as part of its efforts to relieve traffic congestion for drivers crossing the Chesapeake Bay, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Friday.
The Chesapeake Bay watershed received an overall grade of C+ on its latest report card, released Monday by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
The Department of Natural Resources says they're reeling in anglers to learn more about the fish's population and where they migrate.
Found in parts of the Chesapeake Bay and the Blackwater River, the northern snakehead eats other fish, and is one of the top predators in the upper parts of the bay and the river.
The number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay is estimated to be at the lowest level observed since an annual survey tracking the population began in 1990, officials announced Thursday.
The funding is part of a five-year $238 million plan to clean up the 64,000-square-mile watershed, federal officials announced.
The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved more than $5.2 million to turn a historically Black beach on the Chesapeake Bay into a public city park.
The Ever Forward ran aground 24 feet deep into the mud on March 13.
The process to refloat the Ever Forward could begin on Saturday.
Rescue efforts are being coordinated by the United States Coast Guard, with support from state agencies.
The Coast Guard said the operation should take two weeks, but that timeline could change for factors like weather
Spectators were out at Downs Park in Anne Arundel County watching and waiting for the Ever Forward to finally move forward.
The U.S. Coast Guard prepared a second attempt to free a stranded container ship Wednesday, more than two weeks after it ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay.
