Nine million baby oysters were funneled off a boat with a splash into the Severn River recently, populating an oyster reef in ...

Newly proposed legislation aims to pay seafood processors and pet food makers to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay by using an ...

The Patuxent is among the 11 rivers that Abrahamsen has recorded, following the journey of English explorer Capt. John Smith, who some 400 years ago traveled around the Chesapeake Bay, the country ...

Signatories believed they would achieve the program’s primary goal — improving habitat for the Bay’s aquatic life — if they capped nitrogen and phosphorus entering the Chesapeake each year ...

This island in Virginia is a cute little getaway packed with fascinating history and outdoor adventures. It's also a great ...

The osprey is in decline in one of its key territories and some scientists blame overfishing of menhaden, an important food for the birds.

Given the challenges that come with coordinating nutrient quotas in the 64,000-square-mile Bay watershed, doing so across 1.2 million square miles in the Mississippi River basin — which ...

The Patapsco River. Then the Chesapeake Bay. Drowned out by the roar of trucks passing overhead, the water moves over rocks coated with a thick layer of algae, ...

The Chesapeake Bay Program’s 2014 Watershed Agreement aims to preserve 2 million acres by 2025. According to data collected through early 2019 , nearly 1.36 million acres of land in the ...

The James River’s health has slowly yet steadily improved since, due in no small part to the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.Not dissimilar to my role with the Virginia Conservation Network in ...

Several groups say the federal government needs to lead and coordinate state restoration efforts, as it does in the Chesapeake Bay. A Mississippi River-wide nutrient quota could streamline and ...

Given the challenges that come with coordinating nutrient quotas in the 64,000-square-mile Bay watershed, doing so across 1.2 million square miles in the Mississippi River basin — which ...