Chesapeake Bay

Oysters are a critical part of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, acting as a natural filter helping keep the water clean., but the population is dwindling. News4’s Megan McGrath introduces a Maryland man who’s paddleboarding to help save the bay’s oysters.

A new report says that blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are not being over harvested

Researchers are predicting a slightly smaller-than-average oxygen dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay this year

A grade for the health of the Chesapeake Bay has dropped from a C to a C-minus in the last year in an annual report

Officials in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia are filing a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to require two other states to implement plans to cut pollution in the Chesapeake Bay

Anne Arundel County fire officials say rescuers pulled two boys from the Chesapeake Bay after their canoe tipped over about 200 yards off shore

The body of an 8-year-old boy who disappeared Thursday after canoeing with his mother on the Chesapeake Bay has been found, police said.  Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean’s body was found Wednesday afternoon about two miles from where he and his mother, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, set off on Thursday.  The boy’s body was found about 2,000 feet from where...

Authorities say they will continue the search Monday in the Chesapeake Bay for the bodies of the daughter and a grandson of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

The search for two members of the Kennedy family — an 8-year-old boy and his mother — who went missing Thursday while canoeing in the Chesapeake Bay was suspended Friday evening due to darkness and high wind. They are presumed dead. Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean went missing Thursday afternoon, Maryland Gov. Larry…

Advocates for increasing funding to protect the Chesapeake Bay were on Capitol Hill to discuss using that money to help the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program.

Recent comments from the head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program about pollution limits designed to improve the health of the bay have sparked concern among environmental groups and some Maryland officials.  EPA’s bay program Director Dana Aunkst said at a conference this week in Annapolis that 2025 pollution goals set forth in 2010 for Chesapeake Bay...

Governors in nine states along the Atlantic coast are urging the Trump Administration to stop a company that makes fish-oil supplements and other products from fishing in Virginia waters. A letter sent Friday from those governors echoes concerns of fishing regulators who say Omega Protein defied harvest limits in the Chesapeake Bay. The firm catches a fish called Atlantic menhaden…

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg left North America on a return trip across the Atlantic on Wednesday, hitching a renewable-energy ride with an Australian family aboard their 48-foot (15-meter) catamaran.

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg will leave North America and begin her return trip across the Atlantic on Wednesday aboard a 48-foot (15-meter) catamaran sailboat whose passengers include an 11-month-old baby. The boat leaves little to no carbon footprint, boasting solar panels and a hydro-generators for power. It also has a toilet, unlike the boat on which she sailed...

It didn’t rain Saturday night, leaving residents and visitors in Old Town Alexandria wondering why the streets were flooded. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg, 16, spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Action Summit on Monday.

Maryland narrowed the possibilities for a potential new crossing over the Chesapeake Bay to ease traffic congestion to three areas near the current twin spans of the Bay Bridge, state officials announced Tuesday.

Maryland leaders have narrowed down some options to build a new span across the Chesapeake. News4’s Adam Tuss has the details.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Saturday a new state commission to review educational standards for teaching black history in the state.

A family that traces its bloodline to America’s first enslaved Africans said Friday that their ancestors endured unimaginable toil and hardship — but they also helped forge the nation.