The critical population of Chesapeake Bay oysters is on the mend, after numbers decreased due to over harvesting, habitat ...

Millions, if not billions, of pollen grains are heinously floating atop Virginia rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. Why it matters: Any human who chooses to swim in it probably just likes to suffer ...

The map will serve a double purpose of helping target stretches of rivers ... Chesapeake in a major — and until recently unexpected — way, said Joe Wood, senior Virginia scientist with the bay ...

As environmental groups and policy analysts in the Mississippi River basin seek solutions ... An algal bloom is seen near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in Virginia in August 2021.

Green- and yellow-colored slicks made up of tiny grains of pollen are hitting local rivers and the Chesapeake Bay this spring ... including Richmond at No. 8, Virginia Beach at 11, Baltimore ...

The 2023/2024 Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card, issued July 9 at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission ... in the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, where about 40% of land use ...

A Virginia commission’s decision to strike down a ban on the winter dredge harvesting of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay drew sharp ... Maryland and the Potomac River Fisheries Commission ...

Right now, the bay experiences marine heat waves about 22 days a year. But researchers at William & Mary's Batten School and the Virginia ... where rivers meet the sea— like the Chesapeake ...

Gov. Bob McDonnell says his two-year budget will include funds to boost water quality in Virginia’s rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. McDonnell’s office said the proposals — if implemented ...

In 1983, the Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia ... River Network. Several groups say the federal government needs to lead and coordinate state restoration efforts, as it does in the Chesapeake Bay.

a major tributary of the James River, which flows into southern Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. Yet Bay scientists admit their regional nutrient quota isn’t a panacea. “It’s a two-edged sword ...