The Chesapeake Bay area is under siege from a myriad of threats that are becoming more urgent with climate change, and its future economic and ecological vitality may depend in part on the ability ...

Drivers heading over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge for their Fourth of July celebration should be aware of a major traffic ...

For a half-century, advocates for the Chesapeake Bay suggested including it in the National Park Service's ambit. Now, there's draft legislation in Congress.

A new story map chronicles 65 historically black beaches and other places of black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.. Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and Chesapeake ...

“The flooding hazards maps of the Chesapeake Bay area need to be updated with the measurements of land elevation changes and updated projections of sea level rise,” Shirzaei said.

A 2024 survey of 302 schools in the Chesapeake Bay region – including Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia – documented the increased progress toward environmental education goals.

New research by Virginia Tech scientists shows that sections of the Chesapeake Bay are sinking at rates of nearly a quarter an inch — or 7 millimeters — a year. Further, up-to-date knowledge ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland officials on Monday released a draft plan to create a unified Chesapeake National Recreation Area. U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes were joined by ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds a business meeting Nov. 19, 2024, that passed legislation creating the Chesapeake Bay National Recreation Area.

A dead zone is an area of low oxygen that forms in deep Bay waters when excess nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, enter the water through polluted runoff and feed naturally-occurring algae.