Climate & environment

Experts explain the causes of this common summer phenomenon.

Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday announced that Maryland would be the first state to respond to a recent study pointing out roadblocks to faster progress on cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.

Greenbury Point, which covers 250 acres owned by the Navy that juts into the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, should be a centerpiece of a new national park.

Temperatures are expected to be well into the 90s all week, increasing the chance of heat-related illnesses.

The Biden-Harris Administration is pledging $20 billion to fund clean energy programs across the country, including in underserved communities. The vice president described the funding as “the largest investment in financing for community-based climate projects in our nation.”

Under the order, the city will have to assist any sewage backup caused by problems in the city-owned portion of the pipe system

This was supposed to be a triumphant summer for the Wilma Lee, bought by the Annapolis Maritime Museum four years ago. It is the only vessel of its kind in Maryland’s state capital since the Chesapeake Bay Foundation sold the Stanley Norman in 2020. A lease with the city was intended to return this symbol of Chesapeake heritage to City Dock — the waterfront public square of Annapolis — and boost private charters to help keep it afloat.

The request comes after a Thursday morning fire at a DPW drinking water pumping station in Baltimore County strained the region’s drinking water system.

Officials announced this week that the recovery of the fossil and others nearby elevate the park’s classification to a bone bed, the first discovered in Maryland since 1887.

Several entities — including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Maryland Watermen’s Association and states downstream from Pennsylvania — filed lawsuits against the EPA in 2020, alleging the federal government failed to require Pennsylvania to develop and carry out pollution-reduction plans.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been operational for a year, transforming the way scientists understand the universe. It is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

The northern lights will not be visible in Maryland this week. Sorry if we got your hopes up.

Western Maryland and portions of central and eastern Maryland are under the watch because of lower-than-normal stream flows and groundwater levels for this time of year.

How has travel been affected by weather changes? Is it going to get better? I talked to a travel consultant to help answer those questions.

Much of Maryland is under a flood watch Sunday, according to the National Weather Service, and could see severe thunderstorms produce excessive rainfall and strong winds.

The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity in 17 states.

For several months, the General Assembly has been dealing with a post-election series of departures and appointments.

Scientists say seagrass acreage is expanding and the bay's toxic "dead zone" could shrink by as much as a third this year.

Climate change, spelling hotter and wetter weather, is increasing the frequency and severity of storms. Maybe it’s altering clouds, too.

The region’s fishery managers are far from confident that a surfeit of blue crabs now lurks beneath the bay’s surf. But they say that results from the just-released wintertime survey were promising enough to relax some of the restrictions.