The "dead zone" in the Chesapeake Bay is the smallest it has been since recording began in 1985, according to new data from Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Old Dominion University and ...

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.

The Chesapeake Bay’s hypoxia levels in 2024 remained near or below historical averages, according to data from the Maryland ...

This summer’s oxygen-poor “dead zone” in the Chesapeake Bay was the smallest since scientists started monitoring it in 1985, according to estimates by researchers in Maryland and Virginia.

The annual Chesapeake Bay Hypoxia Report showed a steep decline in 'dead zones.' What that means for aquatic life and the region's economy.

The Chesapeake Bay dead zone is shrinking, but there is still a ways to go to getting rid of it completely.

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 ...

With river flows from rainfall in the watershed at 20% less than the historical average during the spring season, the estuary’s summer dead zone is expected to be one of the smallest on recor… ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s usual summer “dead zone” – the oxygen-starved waters that kill fish, crabs and oysters – was the smallest it’s been since scientists started monitoring it 38 years ...

According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and its partners, the bay's so-called "dead zone" was the smallest since monitoring began in 1985.

Researchers are predicting the 2023 Chesapeake Bay dead zone to be significantly smaller than the long-term average taken between 1985 and 2022.