Laura Bankey, the National Aquarium’s director of conservation, said Thursday that 55 people had registered for the Baltimore event. “A real good turnout, much more than I expected for the first time ...

Laura Bankey, Conservation Director of the National Aquarium discusses seafood labeling.

Eric Schwaab, Chief Conservation Officer at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md., and Laura Bankey, the aquarium’s Director of Conservation, will take your questions about water and how ...

Who knows where items we discard each day may show up? More than 200 volunteers who turned out Saturday morning at Fort McHenry know — some of the plastic foam, plastic ware, bottles and othe… ...

“Anything that floats ends up downstream,” said Laura Bankey, director of conservation for the National Aquarium, the wetland’s steward since 1999. “Because this is ...

The Maryland crab cake you enjoy so much might very well come from Maryland. But it likely doesn't. Unfortunately, it's hard for consumers to tell. Baltimore's National Aquarium is promoting ...

WASHINGTON — A new invasive and venomous fish species has been moving north from Caribbean waters in recent years, and is starting to gain in numbers locally. Laura Bankey, director of ...

More than 100 gloved volunteers, some in boots and others in waist-high waders, streamed along narrow paths and historic sea walls Saturday in a secluded nook of wetlands just south of Fort McHenry… ...

Discarded bottles, empty bags of chips and errant playground balls littered the shoreline of the Fort McHenry Wetland, a 7.5-acre hub of biodiversity home to hundreds of plant and animal species. &… ...