The Chesapeake Bay Program released its most comprehensive dataset to date on June 26, 2025, updating its High-Resolution ...

CBS News Baltimore Live. Progress in teaching environmental education in Maryland has rebounded after a slight decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Chesapeake Bay Program.

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.

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 ...

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

The film "Watermen of the Chesapeake" explores the life and heritage of watermen in the Chesapeake Bay area, highlighting their fishing and harvesting methods for shellfish and finfish. It ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – The Chesapeake Bay area is one step closer to becoming part of the national parks system. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday passed the Chesapeake Bay National ...

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 ...

“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 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.

President Obama issued an executive order recognizing the Bay as a national treasure, resulting in new strategy to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. In 2020, Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland and ...