Category: Environment

By Karl Blankenship For decades, Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts have been driven by a simple...

By Jeremy Cox Bay Journal Three dams have been dismantled on the main portion of the Patapsco...

By Jeremy Cox Bay Journal Some eagle-eyed wildlife biologists have made a surprising discovery at...

On a chilly, overcast day in December 1983, more than 700 people who were worried about the declining health of the Chesapeake Bay packed a large hall at George Mason University in Northern Virginia to press for action to save it.

After decades of research, capped by a $27 million, five-year federal study cataloguing the Bay’s ills, the governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator, the mayor of the District of Columbia and the head of the Chesapeake Bay Commission in pledging to work together to turn things around.

By Jeremy Cox/Bay Journal The $886 billion national defense bill signed by President Biden on...

Who knew that deer salivate about 2 gallons a day or that a fawn has 272–342 spots on its coat? Or that a doe may choose to give birth to fawns near a road so that fewer bears, coyotes and bobcats are around? Or that a deer may consume more than 100 different plant species a year?

The Chesapeake Bay’s watermen are getting green lights to catch a few more blue crabs, a year after dismal population numbers led to steep cutbacks in their allowance.

The Chesapeake Bay’s annual “dead zone” is expected to be the smallest ever recorded this summer, providing an unexpected boon to the estuary’s vulnerable ecosystem.

From the Bay Journal The Chesapeake Bay’s once-moribund oyster industry has been on a roll...

By Timothy B. Wheeler Bay Journal The Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population is still a long way from...

By Timothy B. Wheeler and Jeremy Cox The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has recovered...

By Karl Blankenship Bay Journal Editor-at-large For decades, efforts to restore a healthy...