BALTIMORE -- The Chesapeake Executive Council, which includes the governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, pledged to update the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement which was signed a decade ...
ANNAPOLIS, MD– The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) announced its partners restored 640.5 miles of forest buffers in 2023 – the highest number planted across the watershed since 2016. Forest buffers grow ...
A new report evaluating the possibility of a Chesapeake Bay passenger ferry in Anne Arundel County and other waterfront jurisdictions shows it could stimulate economic growth across the region, though ...
Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...
CHESAPEAKE BAY, MD - Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced three new oyster restoration sites in Chesapeake Bay waters, including the Nanticoke River and Hoopers Strait in ...
Last month, Gov. Terry McAuliffe and other bay state governors signed a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, the fourth such compact since 1983. The new agreement lays out 10 ambitious goals that ...
Near the Chesapeake Bay, farms have flourished for hundreds of years on the rich, fertile soil of coastal Maryland. But as sea levels rise, driven in part by climate change, encroaching saltwater is ...
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, and it houses over 3,600 plant and animal species. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center has numerous initiatives to study the ...