Chesapeake Bay blue crab populations fell again, hitting the second-lowest number since Virginia and Maryland marine scientists began counting in 1990, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources ...

Maryland lawmakers are waiting warily for an Environmental Protection Agency budget that they fear could cut staff so deeply that the Chesapeake Bay restoration program could not adequately proceed.

The Chesapeake Bay is the healthiest it's been in a long time, according to the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The center's 2024 Report Card gave the bay a C+ ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The results of the Chesapeake Bay's latest blue crab winter dredge survey show the lowest number of male blue crabs and the second lowest number of total blue crabs ever ...

Oysters are thriving at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay, and the news continues to get better for the mollusks and local watermen. In the past 20 years, the oyster population has grown from 2.4 ...

VIRGINIA, USA — A new study out of the University of Maryland is shedding more light on a long-standing concern: the Chesapeake Bay is getting warmer, and it’s not just a gradual trend.

'Dead zone' impacts Chesapeake Bay fishes Date: July 8, 2013 Source: Virginia Institute of Marine Science Summary: A 10-year study provides the first quantitative evidence on a bay-wide scale that ...

I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay, spending my early years hunting, fishing and learning from the natural world around me. That foundation led me to a career in environmental science, serving over ...

The biggest challenge to cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay is figuring out where the nutrients that fuel summertime dead zones come from — and a new approach to pollution control is stressing ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Satellite observations over 20 years show the Chesapeake Bay now experiences marine heat waves about 25 days annually, with a 10% increase from 2003 to 2022 ...

The large jellyfish swarm in warmer coastal waters in late spring and often wash up on Cumbrian beaches in May or June, sometimes in their hundreds. Their favourite meal is plankton, which can be ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that $206 million in funding will be allocated for projects aimed at continuing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. The historic ...