According to the latest report, which assessed data from the 2019-2021 period, water quality in the Chesapeake met 28.1% of the TMDL water standards while the previous assessment period from 2018 ...

Efforts to improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay have fallen far short of goals set 40 years ago, and a new report by researchers suggests that achieving those goals remains elusive in ...

Tom Toles's May 10 editorial cartoon suggested, based on a May 6 Metro article, that oysters can significantly improve Chesapeake Bay water quality. They can't. Sufficient numbers of oysters can't ...

The recent decline is linked to unusually wet weather in 2018 and 2019, the Chesapeake Bay Program said. More rain can wash pollution into the bay, spurring algae growth and low-oxygen “dead ...

Signatories believed they would achieve the program’s primary goal — improving habitat for the Bay’s aquatic life — if they capped nitrogen and phosphorus entering the Chesapeake each year ...

Well over half of the Chesapeake Bay still is polluted, but experts say water quality has improved significantly — and, in fact, is now the best they’ve ever measured. New preliminary data ...

The Chesapeake Bay Program announced that water quality in the Chesapeake Bay met its highest standard for water quality since monitoring began in 1985.

In 2010, the five states in the Chesapeake watershed pledged to make the Bay healthy by 2025. As we hit the midpoint, scientists say hard work still remains.

The multi-state plan to reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay could be in danger of failing, according to a new report by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. States within the Chesapeake watershed may ...

Sluggish progress on reducing nutrient runoff into the Bay marks an inconvenient truth, but offers lessons for others seeking to clean their watersheds. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — As environmental groups ...