Climate and environment

The new survey comes as advocates for the bay are gearing up for a potentially pivotal meeting next month.

The end of the year is approaching, and it’s starting to feel like it, too, with chilly, rainy weather, and for parts of the state, snow.

A legal challenge over the $100 million project to protect downtown Annapolis from climate flooding mirrors a legal a decade over the exact same space, many of the same ideas and even the same family of lawyers.

Most of the state is experiencing drought conditions as of mid-November, though no statewide water restrictions are in place.

An information and feedback session in Baltimore County on the Piedmont Reliability Project hit a boiling point Tuesday night.

Despite rain on Sunday ending the Baltimore area’s dry spell, the statewide burn ban is still in effect.

Baltimore-area residents will see something Sunday they haven’t seen in a while: rain. But the skies will clear for the Veterans Day holiday.

Due to a lack of rain in combination with low humidity and strong winds, the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning across the region from noon until 6 p.m. Friday.

The Maryland Department of the Environment issued a Code Orange and Code Yellow air quality alert for Baltimore and its surrounding counties.

Despite the not-so-fall weather, getting cozy and grabbing some marshmallows and hot dogs to roast by the fire sounds like the perfect way to really soak in all the autumn vibes. But weather officials are warning against this activity due to an increased fire risk.

Heat is an insidious killer that exacerbates existing health conditions and especially targets vulnerable populations, including children and older adults.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan are locked in a closely watched race for the U.S. Senate, but neither is talking a lot about climate change or the Chesapeake Bay in their campaigns, despite the significance of those issues to Maryland.

Temperatures in the Baltimore region will be in the mid- and upper-70s this week, and could reach 81 on Halloween, according to the National Weather Service.

For Maryland, the winter may be warmer, whether La Niña emerges or not.

The tourist town’s lawsuit, filed Friday, comes after months of threats and as seaside communities in other parts of the East Coast have waged an offensive against a nascent U.S. offshore wind industry.

A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.

The National Weather Service is calling for gusty winds Monday that should cause temperatures to drop through midweek.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a once-in-80,000-years sight, will pass within 44 million miles of Earth, making it watchable with the naked eye in Maryland and much of the Northern Hemisphere.

As she stared at the screen of her camera, then at the sky, she began to cry. She was almost in a dream state.

We will still be under a severe geomagnetic storm watch tonight, issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center after scientists detected a coronal mass ejection — a large blast of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s surface — earlier this week.