Climate & environment

Temperatures in the Baltimore region will be in the mid- and upper-70s this week, and could reach 81 on Halloween, according to the National Weather Service.

For Maryland, the winter may be warmer, whether La Niña emerges or not.

The tourist town’s lawsuit, filed Friday, comes after months of threats and as seaside communities in other parts of the East Coast have waged an offensive against a nascent U.S. offshore wind industry.

A 48-year-old from Anne Arundel County left scrap tires strewn across an industrial property in Western Maryland. He has pleaded guilty to 17 environmental crimes, authorities say.

The Public Service Enterprise Group unveiled a planned route for new transmission lines that the company says would address resident concerns.

Autumn foliage is finally peaking around the Baltimore region.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a special meeting in December to change the season for catching rockfish, catch limits and size restrictions, or some combination of all three.

The free festival sought to instill viewers with an appreciation for the environment and awareness of the ongoing effects of climate change.

A reader says the CSX coal terminal is a stark example of how powerful industries disproportionately affect underserved communities like Curtis Bay.

The National Weather Service is calling for gusty winds Monday that should cause temperatures to drop through midweek.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a once-in-80,000-years sight, will pass within 44 million miles of Earth, making it watchable with the naked eye in Maryland and much of the Northern Hemisphere.

As she stared at the screen of her camera, then at the sky, she began to cry. She was almost in a dream state.

We will still be under a severe geomagnetic storm watch tonight, issued by the Space Weather Prediction Center after scientists detected a coronal mass ejection — a large blast of plasma and magnetic field from the sun’s surface — earlier this week.

Curtis Bay residents want more protections from CSX’s coal facility, but state officials expect the company may file a lawsuit.

Here are some stellar photos of the northern lights captured in Maryland.

A surge of particles from the sun caused the northern lights to be visible in Maryland on Thursday night.

Frustrated Annapolis officials remain confident FEMA funds will come eventually, but starting the massive climate change project at City Dock immediately after the Annapolis Sailboat Show and finishing most of it by next fall isn’t going to happen.

As many as 29,000 birds are expected to fly over the Baltimore area, according to data from Washington College. Almost 10,000 will fly over Columbia.

Hurricane Milton is forecast to remain a dangerous storm as it travels across the state of Florida, bringing life-threatening winds inland.

Baltimore’s City Council voted on Monday to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in the city.