Efforts to save the Chesapeake face serious challenges but not insurmountable ones if the federal-state partnership can be ...

A joint meeting of the General Assembly’s Agriculture and Natural Resources committees will convene at the Virginia Institute ...

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, ...

Officials have released a draft Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan with revised goals, staggered deadlines and some gaps left open pending updated pollution data, aiming for a more realistic and ...

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Hampton River restoration project reaches big milestone with installation of 650 oyster shell bags ...

The Winter Dredge Survey also explores how many blue crabs die each winter due to cold water temperatures and low salinity.

Pesticides touch every aspect of our lives, from keeping mosquitos away, to making sure your food is free of pests. But researchers are finding that pesticides are damaging the health of the ...

Hear from experts on how pesticides are harming the Chesapeake Bay “We're seeing that they're harming aquatic life for sure, including oysters and fish, and even the tiny interdependent critters that ...

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 ...

Vital research into threats to the Chesapeake Bay from invasive blue catfish, PFAS contamination, climate change and land use is on the chopping block as the Trump administration aims to decimate if ...

When cleanup plans were set for the Chesapeake Bay watershed in 2014, the six states, including Virginia, and Washington D.C. set dozens of goals and preferred outcomes. Most expectations will not ...