Some 400 years ago, English explorer Captain John Smith traveled around the Chesapeake Bay in the eastern United States, the country's largest estuary. Smith mapped about 4,800 kilometers of the ...

Efforts to save the Chesapeake face serious challenges but not insurmountable ones if the federal-state partnership can be ...

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s biennial State of the Bay report gave the estuary a C-minus grade, an improvement from a D-plus two years ago and the highest score issued since the inception of ...

US’ largest estuary, Chesapeake Bay, earns D-plus in new rating . Associated Press // January 5, 2023 // Listen to this article.

As the deadline looms for the Chesapeake Bay’s 2025 cleanup goals, the annual progress report from the University of Maryland shows that the estuary’s overall health is neither declining nor ...

In the Chesapeake Bay, underwater seagrass beds are growing, sheltering crabs and fish. The long-awaited recovery depends on efforts by farmers to prevent nutrients from polluting the giant estuary.

Scientists at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation graded the estuary’s health at a D+ for the third time in a row, with the blue crab population under duress and a multi-state cleanup pact poised to ...

News; Chesapeake Bay, America’s biggest estuary, threatened by intensifying downpours. Updated: ; Jul. 06, 2019, 1:17 p.m. | Published: Jul. 06, 2019, 1:17 p.m ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland and Virginia lawmakers in the U.S. Senate have formed a working group with more than 20 advocacy organizations to establish a national recreational area in the Chesapeake ...

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Experts Warn of ‘Dead Zone' in Chesapeake Bay From Pollution Disputes about curbing pollutants following a banner year for runoff is the last thing the Chesapeake Bay needs as climate change ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An environmental group gave the Chesapeake Bay watershed a D-plus grade in an evaluation released on Thursday — the same grade earned in its last report two years ago ...