Tom tells us about a possible ban of the insecticide Chlorpyrifos

Blue crabs are an important part of the Chesapeake region’s culture, diet, and economy. But crab remains are rare in archeological sites around the Bay. This has led some scientists to believe that Native Americans did not eat the beautiful swimmers that today we find so delicious.

Twelve years ago, Baltimore spent $2.2 million on an erosion control project in a stream called the Stony Run that flows through a beautiful wooded park in North Baltimore. The city brought in bulldozers, cut down about 150 trees, and built rock walls and dams in an effort to slow the water’s flow...

Examining the efficacy of stream restoration projects

Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced that it would open up the entire Eastern Seaboard to offshore drilling – including at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay...

This is the new Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitors Center, which the Maryland Department of Natural Resources opened last year. It honors Tubman, the antislavery freedom fighter, who lived and hid runaway slaves here among the trackless marshes and loblolly pine forests surrounding the Blackwater River...

Hear more about the outdoor skills of Harriet Tubman

The Maryland General Assembly session opens today in Annapolis. Last year, state lawmakers – in the face of a tidal wave of anti-environmental actions by the Trump Administration – stood against the tide and passed one of the strongest state environmental laws in America: a ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

Tom outlines the environmental matters that will be brought up in the General Assembly

A biologist at George Washington University, Alexander Pyron, recently published an Op Ed in ----The Washington Post---- that made the argument that people shouldn’t worry about protecting endangered species because mass die-offs historically have been a natural part of life on Earth...