Climate & environment

Autumn foliage is finally peaking around the Baltimore region.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a special meeting in December to change the season for catching rockfish, catch limits and size restrictions, or some combination of all three.

The free festival sought to instill viewers with an appreciation for the environment and awareness of the ongoing effects of climate change.

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.

Curtis Bay residents want more protections from CSX’s coal facility, but state officials expect the company may file a lawsuit.

Here are some stellar photos of the northern lights captured in Maryland.

A surge of particles from the sun caused the northern lights to be visible in Maryland on Thursday night.

Frustrated Annapolis officials remain confident FEMA funds will come eventually, but starting the massive climate change project at City Dock immediately after the Annapolis Sailboat Show and finishing most of it by next fall isn’t going to happen.

As many as 29,000 birds are expected to fly over the Baltimore area, according to data from Washington College. Almost 10,000 will fly over Columbia.

Hurricane Milton is forecast to remain a dangerous storm as it travels across the state of Florida, bringing life-threatening winds inland.

Baltimore’s City Council voted on Monday to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in the city.

Hurricane Milton is forecast to remain a dangerous storm as it travels across the state of Florida, bringing life-threatening winds inland.

The team, composed of first responders from Harford, Montgomery, Howard, and Baltimore counties, arrived in Western North Carolina on September 27 and immediately got to work.

Walk under the U.S., Maryland, and Swedish flags and into the mammoth blue-and-yellow IKEA building in College Park, and the first of many brightly colored, chipper displays makes clear that saving the planet is at stake with every purchase.

Charles Carroll III gathered hundreds of black cats on a Chesapeake Bay island to create a fur farm in the 1840s. Where did they all go?

Two Maryland teams ran more than a dozen rescue missions over the weekend, according to the Maryland Army National Guard.