The Chesapeake Bay notched a "C" on its latest report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, released Tuesday at an event in Alexandria, Virginia.

Bald eagles were nearly wiped out in the 1970s. Over 50 years later, conservation efforts have paid off big time in Maryland.

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 ...

It’s generally accepted that the Chesapeake Bay, the world’s largest estuary – where fresh and sea water mix – derives its name from the continent’s ancient Native American language. It ...

The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary. It's a place where a fertile mix of ocean and river waters has created a rich habitat for fish and blue crabs, and a vast playground for boaters ...

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, with a watershed that covers 64,000 square miles. This region encompasses 150 major rivers and streams and is home to more than 18 ...

The federal government has been fighting pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, for 25 years. But harmful nutrients, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, continue to flow ...

New University of Maryland-led research reveals that the Chesapeake Bay has seen "significant increases" in annual marine heat waves, defined in the study as "prolonged periods of anomalously warm ...

Virginia finally has its final Watershed Implementation Plan — an ambitious road map to further reduce pollution and clean up the Chesapeake Bay. The plan was released Friday as part of a ...

"Maryland is one of the most vulnerable states in the United States, and Chesapeake Bay in particular has a lot of low-lying coastline that's going to be inundated with sea level rise," Bill ...

Too much of a good thing can kill you, the saying goes. Such is the case in the Chesapeake Bay, North America's largest estuary, where an overabundance of nutrients fosters the formation of an ...

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and is home to more than 18 million people. According to the report, solar development in the six states has, up to now, “largely ...