One dam at a time, hundreds of miles of lost fish highways are being reopened in the Chesapeake Bay.
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The Chesapeake Bay Program has a mixed bag of data to report about the health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
The Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program announced that 2,294 acres of oyster reefs in nine tributaries have been restored across Maryland and Virginia.
More school districts in the Chesapeake Bay region are offering environmental education programs, that's according to a 2024 survey released by the Chesapeake Bay Program.
It's not a big improvement but every little step counts. The Chesapeake Bay Program announced Monday that 29.8 percent of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries met water quality standards for the 2020-2022 assessment period. That is a small improvement over the 28.1 percent recorded during 2019-2021.
The program says the agricultural sector accounted for 43% of the nitrogen reductions and 26% of phosphorus reductions between 2022 and 2023.