Now, watershed states and federal officials are back to soul searching. By the end of the year, they aim to revamp goals and ...

But critics caution that the efforts, as designed, cut off some historically Black and disadvantaged communities in South ...

When they last signed a Chesapeake Bay cleanup agreement in 2014, officials from seven jurisdictions set ambitious targets ...

The dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay, where there’s low oxygen for underwater life, was near its average size in 2024, according to new data from the Chesapeake Bay Program.

Chesapeake Bay Program partners said Wednesday that the Bay’s “dead zone” in 2024 was near the long-time average taken from 1985 to 2023.

The Chesapeake Bay’s low-oxygen dead zone is predicted to only be slightly larger this summer in spite of heavy rainfall earlier this year.

This year’s dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay started earlier than normal and will be slightly larger than average after an unusually wet, warm spring, underscoring how climate change threatens ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s 2023 dead zone was the smallest recorded since monitoring began in 1985 thanks to below-average rainfall.