Climate & Environment

Country Calling concertgoers, fear not. The weather in Ocean City seems to be in your favor this weekend.

A state investigation uncovered rampant environmental violations at the South Baltimore incinerator.

Amazon partners with Constellation to upgrade Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant in Southern Maryland.

Days after a powerful nor’easter pounded Ocean City’s beaches, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Baltimore District announced Tuesday that it has awarded a $25.7 million contract for the “renourishment” of the beaches.

COLUMN | Arguments against a bottle deposit program are pretty much what you’d expect. Developments in Maryland and D.C. may be changing the outcome.

There were no impacts on wildlife, residents or local drinking water, said Jay Apperson, a spokesperson for the Maryland Department of the Environment.

A powerful nor’easter continues pounding Ocean City with strong winds, coastal flooding and dangerous surf, turning streets into waterways and forcing road closures across the resort town.

On a large campus in Edgewater, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center flood a forest every summer to learn about climate change. It's just one of the large-scale experiments conducted at the institution which has, so far, escaped some of the scrutiny and critique that Donald Trump has lobbied at the rest of the Smithsonian.

Oceans Calling, a three-day music festival scheduled for this weekend in Ocean City, has been cancelled due to a powerful nor’easter that has caused coastal flooding and other weather concerns.

Baltimore will soon start supplementing water from its reservoirs with water from the Susquehanna River amid drought conditions, officials said Monday.

A strong nor’easter is developing off the East Coast. While forecasts suggest the worst of the storm could miss Maryland, the National Weather Service said that a lot about the storm’s path and strength remains uncertain.

A looming nor’easter is threatening the star-studded Oceans Calling music festival in Ocean City.

Some western Howard County residents are pushing back on a proposed housing development they say could hurt their neighborhood’s reliance on well water. A developer has proposed building an age-restricted 26-home community on a rural Triadelphia Road parcel.

A 14-foot python was found on a trash wheel in Gwynns Falls Tuesday.

The Baltimore County Council on Tuesday narrowly approved an agreement to continue sending massive quantities of garbage to a city incinerator for years, possibly another decade.

Boynton, 79, died Sept. 14 at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., after a long-term illness.

As data center proposals spread across Maryland, communities weigh benefits like tax revenue against costs to utilities, water and quality of life. Here’s what to know.

With a vote Monday night, the Anne Arundel County Council moved closer to a goal it’s had since the 1990s.

Moravia Park Elementary’s Cheyanne Vanderdonckt was one of 11 teachers who took part in this year’s Teacher at Sea program, which is funded by NOAA.

COLUMN | The autumnal equinox is at 8:05 p.m. The cree-cree, cree-ek of the osprey went silent in the skies above my house near Annapolis a month ago. I’m not the only one who noticed that the Chesapeake Bay is out of balance.