Climate & environment

The total eclipse, which is often referred to as a blood moon, will be visible across the United States.

Maryland is sprinting toward spring weather with temperatures set to rise into the 60s and 70s later this week, but first, we have to get past a wintry mix that could disrupt the Tuesday morning commute.

After a spectacularly spring-like day on Saturday, we return to more of a winter feel on Sunday. Wintry weather is expected Monday night into Tuesday morning.

For more than two decades, The Maryland Zoo has functioned as a sort of Noah’s Ark for Panamanian golden frogs, which were wiped out in the wild by a fungus that raced across the globe in the early 2000s.

Gov. Wes Moore requested federal disaster assistance for the Maryland oyster industry, which has been hit hard by a major winter storm and the Potomac Interceptor sewage spill.

After President Donald Trump’s administration slashed the budget last year for a major Eastern Shore oyster hatchery, a bill recently passed by Congress — and signed into law by the president — could help.

Downed branches peppered the heavily wooded community of Ocean Pines on Monday following inch after inch of snowfall.

Environmental advocates are pointing to a recent emissions violation at the Dickerson incinerator as further proof that the facility needs to close. They’re calling on county leaders to take action quickly.

A nor’easter hit Maryland unevenly on Sunday night, leaving parts of the state with more than a foot of snow and some counties with just a few inches, according to the National Weather Service.

In Ocean City, the snow — more of a flaky sludge, really — began Sunday evening, and it didn’t just fall. Rather, it whipped through the air propelled by gusts strong enough to knock over pedestrians.

Marylanders across the state awoke on Monday to a blanket of snow after a nor’easter traveled through the region overnight.

A massive snowstorm pummeled the northeast United States from Maryland to Maine on Monday, forcing millions of people to stay home amid strong wind and blizzard warnings, transportation shutdowns, and school and business closures.

Virtual school wasn’t an option then.

Berlin, Maryland, was without power after a powerful nor’easter dumped snow across the region.

COLUMN | Baltimore County public school students have only had two full weeks of school since winter began on Dec. 20. Now it’s the fourth week of February and parents are tired.

Though many major roadways appear to be clear, caution is still necessary when traveling.

A storm forecasters predict will dump 3-6 inches of snow across parts of Maryland is expected to disrupt schools, universities and other essential services.

One local resident, Bob Ward, was an early witness to what would become one of the largest sewage spills in modern U.S. history.

The district had initially called for a two-hour delay, but “greater-than-expected accumulation ... made it unsafe to open schools, even with a delay."

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore warned of poor travel conditions and life-threatening conditions as a winter storm sweeping the East Coast threatened to bring inches of snow and blizzard conditions to some parts of the state.