HARRISBURG, Pa. — At a dire point in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort, some say hope is springing from an unlikely place: the state of Pennsylvania. Maryland and other states filed a ...

Packed with maritime and colonial history, Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis also offers tons of ways to get out on the water or enjoy its bounty on your plate.

Earlier this year, the Chesapeake Bay report card, compiled by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, granted the estuary its highest score in decades, though it was still ...

An expanded survey of ospreys nesting around the Chesapeake Bay this year is finding that they are failing to produce enough ...

An Obama-era blueprint for protecting the nation’s largest estuary faces a deadline in 2025. President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to ensure clean water while slashing the federal bureaucracy ...

Annabelle Harvey, federal policy coordinator at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, emphasized the ecological and cultural importance of the bay. "It's such a diverse estuary, the largest in the ...

EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program on Friday released the latest projections for dead zones, which are areas of the bay where water lacks enough oxygen for marine life. This year, the total volume of ...

<p>ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation’s largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in an annual report card on the nation’s largest estuary released Tuesday, with scientists noting the effect of extreme rainfall ...

The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary, received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released by scientists Tuesday: a C-plus. (WBFF FILE) ...

FILE - This Aug. 2, 2011 file photo shows the west side of Tangier Island, Va., a fishing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — ...

But, Doherty said, the bay was too diverse an ecosystem to be captured in a small area. The plan will be presented to U.S. Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton for a final decision, Doherty said.