Climate & environment

Scientists say the Chesapeake Bay is still improving, even if this year’s grade marks a step back.

Boat services on the Harbor Connector line between Maritime Park and Locust Point also returned Monday morning.

By midday, forecasters will be monitoring the potential for stronger storms and heavier rainfall across Maryland.

Some of the children are frightened by rain now. Westernport counselor Tessa Fitzgerald invites them to talk about their fears.

The diesel, used to power backup generators on the Hopkins medical campus, flowed into stormwater drains.

Officials said that roughly 18,000 gallons of water have been removed from the Inner Harbor, though it remains unclear how much of the 2,000 gallons of red-dyed diesel fuel that spilled a day earlier were included.

Efforts to clean up the spill could cause traffic problems in the Harbor East area on Thursday.

Maryland environmentalists had braced for Trump to again take a sledgehammer to the Bay Program.

Rochester gave up lanes of highway traffic to turn a trench into green space — and wants to do more.

After years of legal battles over the property, Hyattsville convinced state leaders to earmark funding this session for the Prince George’s County city to purchase the land.

Though rain has helped, drought conditions persist in Maryland.

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works released a statement about the water overflow confirming it was not a health hazard

Owning this land would fulfill a dream for many Hyattsville leaders, who have watched the property become blighted.

Showers and possibly severe storms are expected to roll through the Baltimore region again Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service, but should clear by the evening.

Rumors are swirling in the aftermath of four fires on Keswick Road in the Hampden neighborhood in Baltimore City.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

Buffalo’s plan to turn part of an expressway into a tunnel covered by green space got funded, and then got controversial.

The midges are back, and they’re worse than ever. The tiny flies that have terrorized marina owners on the Back River for two decades have extended their reach to the Middle River peninsula.

Baltimore County is trying to get people to understand that it does actually recycle our trash and wants more people to believe it, and to put out their bins.

When the Key Bridge wreckage was cleared, environmentalists expected to find the oysters dead. They were happy to be wrong.