The health of the Chesapeake Bay declined in 2024 after a record-breaking year of heat and storms, according to an annual report published by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...

The dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay, where there’s low oxygen for underwater life, was near its average size in 2024, according to new data from the Chesapeake Bay Program. The dead zone is the area ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — In 2024, the amount of underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay dropped slightly, down 1% from the previous year, despite growth in most parts of the Bay. Scientists mapped 82,778 ...

(WFXR) – The Chesapeake Bay Program has released the 2024-25 Bay Barometer: Health and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, putting forward its final progress report under the 2014 Watershed ...

The multi-state agreement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, which fell short on many of its promises for 2025, will officially be amended, after a gathering of some of the bay region’s top officials ...

Joel Dunn, the president and CEO of the Chesapeake Conservancy, an Annapolis-based nonprofit that aims to conserve and restore the Chesapeake Bay watershed, will resign at the end of this year. Dunn, ...

The Chesapeake Bay Executive Council, a group of governors and other environmental leaders, announced plans to revise the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. With the 2014 agreement, the council ...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced results of this year’s juvenile striped bass survey, which tracks the reproductive success of Maryland’s state fish in the Chesapeake Bay.. The ...

ALTHOUGH POLLUTION REDUCTION GOALS WILL NOT BE MET NEXT YEAR, PARTICIPANTS SAY THEY WILL BUILD ON PROGRESS AND NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO HIT THE RESET BUTTON ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY IS UNIVERSALLY ...

Janay Reece came back home to Baltimore to join WJZ in August 2023. Before coming back to the Charm City, Janay was a morning anchor and reporter for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA. She joined the WDBJ7 morning ...