Chesapeake Uncharted

As climate change fuels more Agnes-like storms, what will we do to protect vulnerable communities? Tangier Island in Virginia's portion of the Chesapeake Bay offers clues.

Tropical Storm Agnes reshaped the way the United States responds to natural disasters on a national scale. Here's how.

Environmental destruction wrought by 1972's Tropical Storm Agnes fanned the flames of the "Save the Bay" movement into a political wildfire in the Chesapeake Bay region. The storm's legacy is reflected in many current controversies, including the fate of the Conowingo Dam.

Record-setting rainfall during 1972's Tropical Storm Agnes washed decades-worth of pollution into the Chesapeake Bay's fragile waters, damaging the environment for decades.

Tropical Storm Agnes tested the limits of flood barriers. In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a wall wasn't enough. This episode explores what the constant battle to hold back the Susquehanna River tells us about our current fight against climate change.

How a radio station in central Pennsylvania defied official weather experts and delivered an accurate flooding forecast during Tropical Storm Agnes.

Fifty years ago, "America's Estuary" was beginning to show signs of ecological collapse. But outside of a handful of environmentalists and academics, few people took much note. When a seemingly harmless tropical storm charged up from the Gulf of Mexico, few people took much note of that either. But within a few wild and tragic days in June of 1972, Tropical Storm Agnes changed the way people thought about the Chesapeake Bay and the power of storms in the Mid-Atlantic. This is the story of how Agnes ushered in a dark new era for the Bay -- an era we're still living in.

What matters most in the fight against climate change: individual action or collective action? Learn this and the best way to prepare a filet of blue catfish.

Agriculture is both a cause of and solution to climate change. Which will win out?

A massive effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay faces more problems with a hotter, stormier world because of climate change.