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Climate & environment

Hurricane Milton is ‘extremely dangerous’ as it approaches Florida
Hurricane Milton is forecast to remain a dangerous storm as it travels across the state of Florida, bringing life-threatening winds inland.
The forecast cone for Hurricane Milton as of Tuesday morning.
Maryland first responders searching Western North Carolina floods for survivors
The team, composed of first responders from Harford, Montgomery, Howard, and Baltimore counties, arrived in Western North Carolina on September 27 and immediately got to work.
BAT CAVE, NORTH CAROLINA - OCTOBER 1: A member of the Maryland National Guard descends a hill at a supply drop point in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on October 1, 2024 near Bat Cave, North Carolina. The death toll has topped 140 people across the southeastern U.S. due to the storm, according to published reports, which made landfall as a category 4 storm on Thursday. Millions are without power and the federal government has declared major disasters in areas of North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Alabama, freeing up federal emergency management money and resources for those states, according to the reports. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
Annapolis leaders went to Sweden to learn about climate change. I went to IKEA.
Walk under the U.S., Maryland, and Swedish flags and into the mammoth blue-and-yellow IKEA building in College Park, and the first of many brightly colored, chipper displays makes clear that saving the planet is at stake with every purchase.
The entrance of the IKEA store in College Park, Maryland on Oct. 2 is filled  with information on the Swedish furniture giants sustainability goals.
100s of black cats roamed a Chesapeake Bay island. Then they disappeared.
Charles Carroll III gathered hundreds of black cats on a Chesapeake Bay island to create a fur farm in the 1840s. Where did they all go?
Artist Katherine Fahey became obsessed with a long-ago colony of black cats on Poplar Island, located on the Chesapeake Bay.
Maryland Army National Guard rescues 70 in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene
Two Maryland teams ran more than a dozen rescue missions over the weekend, according to the Maryland Army National Guard.
Two Maryland teams ran more than a dozen rescue missions over the weekend, according to the Maryland Army National Guard.
Rare brown boobies bewitch Baltimore birders
Brown boobies, rare birds native to the tropics, are getting comfortable on buoys in the Chesapeake.
Brown Boobies sit on a port hand navigation buoy in the Chesapeake Bay near Rock Hall. A colony of more than a dozen boobies, which are normally found in the tropics, has been drawing birders onto the bay for much of the summer.
Don’t let the cool end to the season fool you. Summer 2024 was a scorcher.
2024 was the second-hottest summer since 1995, according to a Banner analysis of temperatures at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport.
A multicolored popsicle ranks summers based on how hot they were. This year was the second hottest summer, second only to 2010.
As the leaves change, here’s where to find the best fall foliage in Maryland
Leaves are expected to change earlier than normal this year, and feature more yellows and golds rather than reds and purples.
Around Baltimore, fall foliage is expected to peak later in October.
What Maryland needs to know about Hurricane Helene
Maryland can expect to see precipitation coming from Hurricane Helene by midday Friday.
Hurricane Helene made landfall over Florida on Thursday evening.
High lead levels in Annapolis creek are reminder that Navy can be a tough neighbor
Greenbury Point is a reminder that the Navy, where a rifle range has operated for some 100 years, can be a tough neighbor.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (July 02, 2024) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, of 3rd and 4th company from the United States Naval Academy Class of 2028 participate in pistol and rifle training during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Kenneth D. Aston Jr.)
Vinegar company agrees to $1M settlement for pollution violations
The Maryland Department of the Environment and Fleischmann’s Vinegar Company have reached a $1.1 million settlement over water pollution violations from the company’s Baltimore facility, MDE officials announced Wednesday.
A sign pointing visitors toward the main office building outside Fleischmann’s Vinegar near Baltimore’s Cold Spring neighborhood.
Virginia keeps winter crab dredging closed, for now
In a notable reversal, Virginia will not open a winter dredging season for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay this year.
JC Hudgins shows a blue crab he caught in the Chesapeake Bay in Mathews, Va., on Friday, June 10, 2022.
Anne Arundel wants to balance access to the Chesapeake Bay. Critics call it rationing.
Water access advocates say County Executive Steuart Pittman has slowed the momentum they helped build on expanding public water access along the Chesapeake Bay.
Mike Lofton and Lisa Arrasmith stand on the shore of Selby Bay at South River Farm Park on Sept. 16, 2024. The water access advocates say County Executive Steuart Pittman is taking too long to make it more available to the public.
Ospreys have left the Chesapeake and change is in the air, political and otherwise
For many, fall arrives with the equinox. For me, the shift begins when osprey cries are replaced in the skies above my home on the Chesapeake Bay.
An Osprey preparing to dive at Kennedy Space Center, Florida in 2012.
A Howard County nonprofit wants to help marginalized communities weatherize their homes
The Community Action Council of Howard County secured a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to revitalize housing units.
A woman stands at a podium at a press conference and speaks to a crowd.
A 13,000-year-old quarry is about to be unearthed in Reisterstown
The rolling green fields surrounding an Episcopal church in Maryland conceal a secret: Native Americans made weapons here 13,000 years ago.
Archaeologist Zac Singer will soon start a dig around St. John’s Church in Reisterstown in the hope of finding a 13,000-year-old quarry.
Syringes, hygiene products found among tide of medical waste on Maryland beaches
Medical waste and debris continued to wash up on beaches in Maryland, and officials say they will prohibit swimming as they investigate.
More medical waste has washed up on shore in Ocean City, as well as on Assateague Island.
Gray skies and rain forecast for Baltimore this week as storm threatens Carolinas
There is a chance of showers overnight, according to the National Weather Service forecast, with rain showers likely on Tuesday.
Dreary, gray conditions are expected in and around Baltimore this week, with temperatures not forecast to climb any higher than 78 degrees.
Ocean City, Assateague shut down ocean access as medical waste washes ashore
Assateague State Park, Ocean City and other Maryland beaches have shut down water access due to medical waste, including hypodermic needles, washing ashore.
Access to the ocean is currently unavailable at the Assateague Island National Seashore.
Maryland sues Harford County developer over mud pollution in Gunpowder River
Maryland authorities have filed suit against the developer and builders of a Harford County housing project, accusing them of polluting the Gunpowder River by failing to control muddy runoff.
Muddy water stands in bared soil at construction site for Ridgely’s Reserve in Harford County, MD, following heavy rain in late September 2022.
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