ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is offering free tree seedlings to landowners in several counties who have a creek, d…
John Naylor eased his 16-foot fiberglass canoe into the Susquehanna River near a small archipelago of forested and ever-changing mudflat islan…
Over the last two weeks I have noticed that some of the resident birds at Adkins have started to sing their ‘Come here, sweetie’ and ‘This is …
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A force main break caused wastewater to flow into a Delaware river, and people in the vicinity are being advised to take pr…
ANNAPOLIS — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced last week that it planted 14 million baby oysters in the Chesapeake Bay in 2020, with more…
The house sparrow is one of the most common birds in the world with an estimated population of over 500 million, but you may be hard pressed t…
President Joe Biden’s pick to run the U.S. Environmental Agency has pledged to marshal the agency’s resources to help meet the 2025 goal for c…
EASTON — Bills have been proposed in the Maryland General Assembly to allow for more hunting on Sundays across much of the state. The measures…
ROYAL OAK — About 8,000 gallons of partially treated sewage spilled into a roadside drainage ditch in Royal Oak on Thursday, Feb. 11.
WYE MILLS — Talbot County is considering taking over The Preserve at Wye Mills’ wastewater treatment plant after its technology has repeatedly…
OXFORD — An engineering firm will create marshy island buffers in the Tred Avon River off Strand Road and erect a long sand dune on Strand Bea…
POPLAR ISLAND — The Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently marked a …
As a kid growing up on Bald Top Mountain above the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, Van Wagner would look down during times of low water to …
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday it was delaying a rule finalized in former President Donald Trump’s last days in…
TRAPPE — Environmental groups ShoreRivers and Chesapeake Bay Foundation have filed judicial reviews challenging the discharge permit issued by…
BALTIMORE — Morgan State University has been awarded a $999,999 federal grant to study the impact of microplastics and plastic pollution on th…
It was a bad sign last spring when Bob Orth answered the phone and the words spilled out from the other end. “Where did all the grass go?” The…
Fighting climate change, planting more trees and funding environmental progress in tight times will be among the challenges confronting state …
ANNAPOLIS — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is partnering with IBM as part of a new technology-based education effort focused on green jobs.
During its long and storied history, the Audubon Naturalist Society has counted among its active members such environmental luminaries as form…
ANNAPOLIS — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation graded the Chesapeake Bay with another low mark for 2020: scoring its overall health with a 32, or a…
OCEAN CITY — Masking up because of the coronavirus pandemic and all the government orders to wear face coverings could end up adversely impact…
DENTON — Legislators from District 36 and District 37A serving Dorchester, Talbot, Queen Anne’s and Caroline counties joined local recreation …
Several new scientific discoveries give hope that eastern hemlocks will not go the way of chestnut, elm and ash trees and largely disappear fr…
With a deadly pandemic racing across the country and beginning to surface in the surrounding community last spring, the tiny Maryland nonprofi…
GRASONVILLE — Plastic Free QAC has joined forces with the Maryland Clean Marina Initiative (CMI) and the Marine Trades Association of Maryland…
EASTON — A partnership of environmental groups and six Eastern Shore localities announced Tuesday the beginnings of 13 projects across the Mid…
BALTIMORE — Former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., died on Sunday, Dec. 6. He was 87.