Environment

MD's senior senator discusses US responses to Russia's war threats in Ukraine and the fate of stalled Senate legislation.

As he steps down after four decades as president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the activist looks back at his efforts and looks ahead at the prospects for the still-troubled watershed.

Environmental advocates lay out their agenda

How and why are ‘forever chemicals’ showing up in our drinking water ... and what’s being done about it? Plus, as Will Baker completes 40 years heading the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, we ask why the Bay still gets a grade of D-plus.

The environmental activist weighs the successes & failures in Glasgow and the new US climate initiatives.

It's using high tech mapping to rank tree-starved neighborhoods

We’ll go On the Record with the head of Baltimore City’s pilot program to collect and compost food scraps. Where do these scraps go? Why is reducing food waste important? Plus, Marvin Hayes of the Baltimore Compost Collective on getting your own start at home.

The millions of masks and gazillions of gloves that kept people safe during the pandemic are not so safe for wildlife.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation President Will Baker describes the unique challenges of saving this vast, troubled estuary.

Billions of the 17-year cicadas will soon be swarming and making a racket in our neighborhoods, but an expert says we shouldn't be too worried.