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 Monitoring Cooperative is celebrating its 10th anniversary, highlighting a decade of work tracking the health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
The Chesapeake Bay Program has a mixed bag of data to report about the health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
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.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation have awarded $8.9 million in grants to conserve habitats and enhance climate resilience in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Delaware has received a $1.3 million grant from the Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Program.
The program says the agricultural sector accounted for 43% of the nitrogen reductions and 26% of phosphorus reductions between 2022 and 2023.
A groundbreaking partnership among the Delmarva Chicken Association, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, and the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance is launching a $2 million initiative to promote best management practices in chicken farming across Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia.
DNREC says that regularly pumping out a septic system, not only prolongs the life of the system but also helps protect surface and ground waters from potential contamination.