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 ...

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 ...

John Montgomery, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Jul 27, 2026 Jul 27, 2026 0 For children, the summer months signify a time of freedom and leisure. For most kids, there’s no school, no homework and ...

Next door to North Keys Community Park in Brandywine, MD, sits a 140-acre landfill where millions of tons of coal ash have been dumped since 1970. Toxic chemicals in the ash have seeped into the ...

If you have ordered something online and been amazed when it arrives at your doorstep the next day, you can probably thank a super-sized warehouse. Driven by “eCommerce” and supercharged by the ...

Water used to practically burst out of the ground when well diggers tapped into an aquifer in eastern Virginia in the 1940s. That’s no longer the case because those natural subterranean reservoirs are ...

Colonial Beach, VA: It was a glorious spring here on the lower Potomac River in 2023 for ospreys and for the townsfolk like Joanie and Barry Millward who applaud their annual return from the tropics ...

The growing presence of data centers in Northern and Central Virginia is causing an unprecedented spike in projected energy use for the region. A sharp increase in the use of energy-hungry artificial ...

The deliberate, controlled burning of forests and grasslands is spreading across Pennsylvania, sweeping away policies that had mostly banned such fires for fear they would destroy everything, ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series, Our Waterways, examining the health of smaller streams and sections of rivers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. If you would like to suggest a waterway ...