Recent Stories

Clean Bread and Cheese Creek's goal is as simple as its name states: clean up trash and stop illegal dumping.

Extreme weather conditions in 2010 and 2011 led to a substantial decrease in bay grasses throughout the Bay and its rivers.

Virginia added approximately 840 miles of streams and 2 square miles of estuaries to its list of impaired waters in 2012.

Take a midnight trip on the icy Bay to learn how scientists brave sleep deprivation and frigid weather to monitor sea ducks.

Can’t make it to the Bay’s shores? Enjoy a glimpse of this remarkable raptor through two online osprey cams.

Beaverdam Creek may be a lesser-known tributary of the Anacostia River, but it is one of the most beautiful and scenic.

The nonprofit Friends of Dyke Marsh helps preserve, restore and celebrate this rare Potomac River ecosystem.

The U.S. EPA will provide $4 million in grants to local governments to reduce pollution to local waterways.

Take a look around your backyard, community or local park for these five telltale signs of spring.

Biologists collect discarded Christmas trees to build bird nesting habitat on a restored island in the Chesapeake Bay.