Efforts to save the Chesapeake face serious challenges but not insurmountable ones if the federal-state partnership can be ...

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

Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay is slowly disappearing as sea rises and erosion hits the shoreline. The population has ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An aerial view looks from the Guinea section of Gloucester past Point Comfort and out into the Chesapeake Bay. In Gloucester and other parts of Virginia, pay-for-outcomes grants seek to reward ...

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.