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

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.