Climate & environment

If legislation working through the General Assembly wins approval, the approach to cleaning up Baltimore’s Middle Branch would be repeated statewide.

Maryland’s Warfield Air National Guard Base will change its focus to cyberdefense from a flight mission using aging A-10 Thunderbolt model aircrafts under a plan announced Thursday by the U.S. Air Force.

With Maryland facing a $3.3 billion shortfall for transportation over six years, state lawmakers in Annapolis are looking at ways to raise money, including levying a 50-cent fee on most online purchases and home-delivery transactions.

Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan dramatically rejected money from an offshore wind company in a press release.

Farmland application of industrial sludge that comes from the dissolved air flotation process needs better oversight, says a Cecil County resident with a long career in the wastewater treatment industry.

All of the climate-monitoring sites in the Baltimore-Washington region saw above-average temperatures and precipitation and below-normal snow this winter, according to the National Weather Service.

Years of tension have finally caught up to a garden and compost group who are expected to officially split by March 29.

Baltimore children suffer from disproportionately high asthma rates, and pollution inside homes is considered a major cause, Panagis Galiatsatos, an associate professor and physician in pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins, says.

The state transit agency plans to fully electrify its fleet of passenger buses as part of an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but budget cuts could delay the full transition.

Baltimore’s own Mr. Trash Wheel is featured in a new book in Dr. Seuss' Lorax series.

Smelly chicken plant leftovers, some of it trucked across state lines to be stored in pits until it can be spread as fertilizer on farm fields, is stinking up parts of Maryland now.

Snow accumulations are expected to be 2 to 4 inches in some areas.

John Hopkins scientists say they have the evidence to finally explain why birds can fly, and it starts with their big brains.

Maryland is joining a partnership to establish a center of excellence for offshore wind energy.

The summer cottage of Coppin State Unversity President Parlett Moore will be combined with the adjacent Elktonia Carr’s Beach park to create a new cultural center focusing on the stories of African Americans and the Chesapeake Bay.

“I believe an appetizing name is all that stands in the way of consumer acceptance,” Republican Sen. Jack Bailey told fellow senators during a public hearing.

The Baltimore area could see 1 to 3 inches of snow.

New greenhouse gas reduction targets are part of the department's larger — and daunting — climate goals.

Some areas of the Chesapeake Bay region and certain communities, including the Latino community, could be acutely impacted by flooding risks linked to climate change, Shanna Edberg, director of conservation programs at Hispanic Access Foundation, says.

The EPA says it wants to strengthen Clean Air Act standards for large facilities that burn trash.