Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine cones on the weathered, guano-spattered platform. It's a failed osprey ...

When they last signed a Chesapeake Bay cleanup agreement in 2014, officials from seven jurisdictions set ambitious targets ...

In fact, Chesapeake Bay — the nation's largest estuary — is at a critical ... An adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons a day of the algae that cause dead zones. "When there's less algae in the ...

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.

Chesapeake Bay Program partners said Wednesday that the Bay’s “dead zone” in 2024 was near the long-time average taken from 1985 to 2023.

The Chesapeake Bay’s low-oxygen dead zone is predicted to only be slightly larger this summer in spite of heavy rainfall earlier this year.

The "dead zone" in the Chesapeake Bay is the smallest it has been since recording began in 1985, according to new data from Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Old Dominion University and ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s 2023 dead zone was the smallest recorded since monitoring began in 1985 thanks to below-average rainfall.