Climate & environment

Of the 15 regions of the Chesapeake, 11 showed “improved” scores and five regions showed “significant improving trends,” officials said Tuesday.

Temperatures on Tuesday could feel as high as 105 to 108 degrees in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro areas.

Annapolis is developing a plan to make it easier to get into the water. But swimming? It’s not on anyone’s priority list.

The heat advisory in Maryland comes as large swaths of the country grapple with a heat wave.

While there is a chance of scattered showers and storms, don’t expect it to bring relief: The forecast high for Saturday is 96 degrees, with a heat index that could reach 105, according to the National Weather Service.

A peregrine falcon fell from its nest in downtown Baltimore. Turns out, there's a man - dedicated to helping these fallen avians. And a USFWS program.

This weekend also brings high heat, with thunderstorms expected Friday and Saturday, when temperatures could reach a high of 96 degrees. Sunday will be mostly sunny with a forecast high of 94 degrees.

June saw at least three drownings in the region. Here’s how to stay safe.

The Office of People’s Counsel, a state agency that represents Maryland utility customers, says more than $700 million a year in gas infrastructure spending by utilities is worsening the energy burden on low-income communities and hampering the state’s efforts to hit ambitious clean energy and emissions reduction targets.

After showers and storms move through the Baltimore region on Sunday, forecasters are predicting sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s on Monday and Tuesday. Intense heat and possibly storms return on the holiday.

The Chesapeake Bay Program has established a “Beyond 2025″ committee to develop recommendations for future cleanup efforts. The committee’s recommendations are expected to be made public in early July and the final report will be delivered near the end of the year.

Maryland has seen two heat-related deaths so far in 2024 — both before 2023 even saw one.

The rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution.

City officials and their lawyers claim global beverage giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, along with six other companies, used deceptive business practices and created a public nuisance, while causing harm to people’s health and the environment, according to a lawsuit filed late last week.

Temperatures in the Baltimore-Washington region could climb to the mid to upper 90s, though the humidity could make it feel closer to 100 to 105 degrees.

The decision allows Virginia to study the viability of a winter fishery, but does not automatically create one.

Katie Pumphrey completed a more than 24-mile swim from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to the Harborplace Amphitheater in the Inner Harbor.

The earthquake was centered in Montgomery County, Maryland, in Spencerville, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The Baltimore area broke at least two heat records last week. This week, conditions should be cooler.

Howard County residents have voted to name a new tunnel-boring machine “Rocky.” Its first order of business is to cut through 5,000 feet of granite, part of an effort to tame floodwaters in Ellicott City.