Maryland's oyster population has more than tripled in the past 20 years, according to data released Monday from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the University of Maryland Center ...

The multi-state agreement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, which fell short on many of its promises for 2025, will officially be amended, after a gathering of some of the bay region’s top ...

ANNAPOLIS — The Chesapeake Bay Program announced the public feedback period for the draft revised Chesapeake Bay Watershed ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation’s largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall ...

Multiple Congressional Representatives from Maryland and Virginia have joined forces to introduce a unique federal response ...

The Chesapeake Bay declined in health in 2024, according to an annual report published by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Latest U.S.

Chesapeake Bay is at a turning point. Once severely polluted, the bay has seen major improvements in recent years. But President Trump's proposed budget would slash key programs.

By Katherine Hafner/WHRO The temperature of water in the Chesapeake Bay naturally fluctuates each year, tied to weather patterns and ecosystem changes across the bay’s massive, 64,000-square ...

The first Trump Administration tried unsuccessfully to eliminate the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program in 2017. Republican lawmakers, including Youngkin and Virginia representatives Rob Wittman and Jen ...

A parasitic worm that lives on the eggs of female blue crabs might actually help scientists and fishery managers protect this ...

By the numbers. The total estimated number of crabs living in the Chesapeake Bay for the past 10 years of the blue crab winter dredge survey. 2016: 553 million 2017: 455 million 2018: 371 million ...

Chesapeake Bay health grade dips after hottest year on record and extreme rainfall patterns. ... That’s the amount of oxygen present in the water that is needed to support bay aquatic life.