Climate & environment

The remnants of Debby, which has been downgraded to a tropical depression, will be moving into the Baltimore area through Friday.

The superyacht Lovebug capsized last month about 12 miles south of Annapolis, just inside the West River. No matter what investigators find when the boat is refloated next week, maybe the way Lovebug and other superyachts have changed Annapolis is just as important.

A coalition of Baltimore City Council members and AFSCME Council 3 leaders came together Tuesday morning to demand more protection for public employees following the heat-related death of a sanitation worker, Ronald Silver II.

More than 7,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric customers, most in Baltimore, did not have power Monday morning, down from 14,000 customers on Sunday night.

I went sailing on Saturday. Not really a surprising thing. I live in Annapolis. But August is the Chesapeake Bay’s unexpected month — the time of year when things turn out exactly as you expect until they do not.

In vintage and thrift stores around Baltimore, customers looking for older used garments are a part of the fight for sustainability.

Baltimore’s mayor is calling for patience as crews work to restore power to thousands of residents nearly 24 hours after strong winds and thunderstorms hit the region Saturday evening.

Emergency personnel received a call in Waldorf, Maryland, at about 9:21 p.m. Friday from Regency Furniture Stadium reporting that a moon bounce house became airborne because of a wind gust while children were inside.

Several lighting strikes happened around 8 p.m. and, while people at ArtScape were eagerly waiting for news, the stage crew started packing up gear.

While it may not be the hottest weekend of the year, Artscape weekend is forecast to be hot and humid.

About 40 people who gathered at a public library in Dundalk Thursday evening for a public hearing on a newly unveiled plan to demolish the remainder of the bridge — the first step of a multiyear plan to get drivers traversing the bridge once again.

No one seems to want a proposed 70-mile power transmission line that would run through Carroll, Frederick and Baltimore Counties. And no one seems to know exactly how to stop it.

Chemical company W.R. Grace & Co. wants to recycle plastics in Columbia, but neighbors worry about the impact on air quality.

Perdue has agreed to pay the Maryland Department of the Environment close to $12 million to settle air pollution violations at the company’s soybean facility on the Eastern Shore.

The project that could become Maryland’s first offshore wind farm would have few major environmental impacts, according to a review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

He shared details of the vandalism with his 1.7 million TikTok followers and has seen an outpouring of support.

A 15-year study estimated the financial burden placed on first responders and emergency resources due to gas leaks incidents. When Baltimore firefighters respond, it’s costly.

David S. Lapp, the people’s counsel, wrote a letter voicing his worries about a proposed 70-mile power line to the managers of PJM Interconnection LLC, the utility that manages the power grid infrastructure in Maryland and 12 other states.

The Western Maryland drought watch is based on lower-than-normal stream flows and groundwater levels for this time of year, state officials said.

Biologists with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center found evidence that sanctuaries in tributaries of the bay have higher populations of oysters and other marine life, including two common parasites.