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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This year, the Chesapeake Bay got its highest grade in 22 years, and the portion of the bay that the Susquehanna River flows into got the second-best grade of the entire watershed.

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

A new story map chronicles 65 historically black beaches and other places of black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.. Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and Chesapeake ...

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.

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 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 ...