People spilled out of the Harford County, MD, council chambers and down the street in June. For more than 10 consecutive ...
A development partnership backed by an A-list sports celebrity is looking to transform a former amusement park in Maryland ...
Born and raised in Chesterfield County, VA, Phil Lohr knows what life was like before the Shoosmith Landfill moved into the ...
If you spend enough time on our nearest ocean beaches, you might be lucky enough to spot a piping plover making short dashes ...
John Montgomery, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Dec 22, 2025 Dec 22, 2025 0 Whenever I’d watch a television show or movie set in Pennsylvania, I used to wonder why there always seemed to be a river, ...
One day last July, Vernon Spear scratched his forearm on a crab pot as he pulled it out of the Choptank River from his pier in Cambridge, MD. He put hydrogen peroxide on the tiny cuts, thinking that ...
The photo gallery on this page bears witness to a changing landscape. For decades, Bay Journal photographer Dave Harp has been documenting the withering of James Island in the Chesapeake Bay. When ...
It’s been a slog, but efforts are making headway to rid the Anacostia River of long-banned toxic chemicals that make it unsafe to eat many locally caught fish. After years of sampling and studies, ...
Chesapeake Bay summer water temperatures are increasing by nearly a half degree Fahrenheit per decade and rising nearly twice as fast as global surface ocean water temperatures, according to a recent ...
With mosquito season here again, there’s reason to wonder if the annual spraying of Chesapeake Bay watershed communities to control the pesky insects could also have put humans at risk by exposing ...
As a kid growing up on Bald Top Mountain above the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, Van Wagner would look down during times of low water to see a mysterious “V” rising from the bottom, pointing ...
Four decades ago, populations of the river otter, a playful, whiskered member of the weasel family, were so depleted that most states in the Chesapeake Bay region considered them endangered. Today, ...