Climate & Environment

COLUMN | How do you make a busy waterway livable, swimmable? For almost 20 years, the Spa Creek Conservancy has been working to do that.

Prince George’s County leaders responded defiantly to a lawsuit challenging their attempts to take nearly $40 million from the bi-county parks and planing commission, which sued the county over the transfer.

The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory as temperatures could feel as hot as 105 degrees.

City officials paused the capital project work that likely led to the explosion at the Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant on Tuesday.

Temperatures are going to feel like they're over 100 degrees later this week as thunderstorms roll into Baltimore.

A coalition of groups focused on the health of local rivers is seeking to change perceptions with a new monitoring program that provides real-time water quality data.

This skeeter fight involves two communities: North Linthicum, with about 700 households, and Linthicum-Shipley, with closer to 3,000.

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing 70 mph wind gusts and quarter-sized hail prompted watches and warnings across Western and Central Maryland, including the Baltimore area, on Saturday afternoon.

Months after Trump’s NOAA unexpectedly slashed support for the Horn Point oyster hatchery, state leaders stepped in to to help — then the agency reneged on its cut.

The decision came a day after Maryland leaders approved plans to permanently shutter the landfill site and restore it as an extension of Gunpowder Falls State Park.

President Trump committed millions to restart the shuttered Warrior Run coal plant in Western Maryland, part of federal funding his administration rolled out to buoy a sinking coal industry across the country.

The New World screwworm fly has reached south Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday.

COLUMN | I am excited about the idea of Baltimore’s harbor being swimmable. But you’re going to have to do it without your girl.

Curators behind a new exhibition ask Baltimore to picture the Jones Falls in 50 years. Does it have a highway on top? How about gondolas?

After weather-related cancellations last year, Baltimore’s Harbor Splash returns Sunday in Fells Point as organizers launch a series of pop-up swims aimed at getting more people back into the harbor.

The proposal, backed by Mayor Brandon Scott, City Council President Zeke Cohen and Comptroller Bill Henry, comes after bondholders downgraded Baltimore’s debt rating on its sewer system this year.

An older man died in Calvert County this month due to the heat, Maryland Department of Health officials said, the first heat-related death in the state this year.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is asking the federal government for disaster aid to help farms and wineries that had crops damaged by a late-spring freeze.

The mid-Atlantic beaksedge was recently declared threatened and endangered by Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources. It joined the list of endangered and rare plants this year, alongside seven others.

A strong cold front could bring showers and damaging thunderstorms across Maryland on Wednesday, putting parts of the state under a flood watch.