Climate & environment

An unexpected snow day made me, a former Baltimore City Public School kid and now a parent, rethink a lot of things.

Temperatures will fall into the teens Tuesday night with windchills in the single digits.

Annapolis got hit with major flooding as leaders prepared to take up a plan to protect the city center from storm surge and sunny-day flooding.

Here's breakdown of what to expect over the next few days.

Advocates like the Moore administration’s ambitious plan to combat climate change, but some wonder if the new governor has the strategy to implement it.

Advocates and environmental groups largely welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency’s Jan. 11 proposal to impose stricter pollution limits on large trash incinerators. But they caution that the new standards, if implemented, would not eliminate the public health risks caused by toxic pollutants they emit.

A ranger with the Maryland Park Service found the ship timber, still showing markings of the shipwright who built her, during a daily patrol on December 22. A strong coastal storm delivered its gift practically to the ranger’s doorstep.

The decision about where to put oysters paid for by the owners of the Ever Forward may be the opening act in the next great oyster drama on the Chesapeake Bay. As signs that massive oyster reef reconstruction is working abound, where do efforts to rebuild a keystone species go next?

Tuesday’s rainstorms swept unusual puffin-like seabirds into the mid-Atlantic region.

Baltimore area residents and emergency responders are surveying the damage caused by substantial rainfall that soaked the region Tuesday.

Some school systems are delayed or closed after a severe storm caused flooding and road closures.

Heavy rains and tidal flooding submerged roadways, stranded vehicles and downed power lines and trees Tuesday as a storm plowed through the Baltimore region.

It’s early January, but instead of a blizzard, the Baltimore region is bracing for floods and strong winds. What gives?

Maryland is bracing for a storm system that’s expected to bring heavy rain, flash flooding and damaging winds.

The bloated storm system that pushed northward over the Eastern Seaboard left Baltimore and Maryland soaked but spared most of the state from snow and ice.

Before colonizers arrived, the Piscataway, or “the people where the rivers bend,” lived here. Sumwalt Run flowed beneath an open sky as a tiny capillary connecting what is now North Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean.

Marylanders are bracing for a storm that forecasters say will dump snow, sleet and rain across the state.

Parts of Maryland will likely see snow on Saturday and Sunday as a storm moves into the area, weather forecasters said.

A 2.3 magnitude earthquake registered in Montgomery County early Tuesday morning.

Here’s the open secret about the plastic bag ban that took effect New Year’s Day in Anne Arundel County. It’s not a ban.