A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total ...

The Chesapeake Bay Program released its most comprehensive dataset to date on June 26, 2025, updating its High-Resolution Land Use/Land Cover Data and Change Data and introducing new Hyper-Resolution ...

Cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay is a big feat, and the targets from a plan set in 2014 with a deadline of this year weren’t quite met.

A cormorant flaps its wings as a water scooter passes through the Chesapeake Bay’s Brewerton Channel near Pasadena, Maryland, ...

A dataset unveiled today more than doubles the documented stream miles in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, elevating the total from approximately 150,000 to nearly 350,000 miles. The novel, AI ...

A newly released hydrography data set for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed identified many more streams than the previous dataset. This example shows the new data in blue compared to the older maps in ...

The Chesapeake Bay declined in health in 2024, according to an annual report published by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

The health of the bay is a reflection of what’s happening across its six-state watershed, which includes Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia along with the ...

Explore the map of historic Black sites for yourself View the story map chronicling 65 historically Blackbeaches and other places of Black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed here.

The announcement follows the Chesapeake Bay Program acknowledging many of the goals of the original Watershed Agreement would not be met by the 2025 target date.

“Chesapeake Bay cleanup has made some tremendous progress, which can be traced back to the dedicated state, federal, and local partnership formed across the watershed.

The Chesapeake Bay is the cleanest it's been in 24 years, thanks to reductions in water pollution from agricultural runoff and wastewater in Pennsylvania, including Northeast Pennsylvania. The ...