Climate & environment

Temperatures will near record highs in Central Maryland on Tuesday and Wednesday, then quickly drop by the end of the week, according to the National Weather Service.

While the sun has been shy these last couple of weeks, things are starting to look up.

Nearing the end of Maryland's worst oyster harvests in years, Gov. Wes Moore appealed to President Donald Trump for disaster aid. But whether the Chesapeake Bay's oystermen will get help from the federal government isn't clear.

COLUMN | Hours after President Donald Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, word spread that Annapolis would finally get $35 million crucial to its massive remake of City Dock.

Elected officials, economic leaders and other analysts were all caught off guard by a potential five-year development moratorium in the part of Anne Arundel County surrounding BWI, Arundel Mills and just north of Ft. Meade.

WSSC Water customers in Maryland will likely pay for the cleanup and repairs of the collapsed Potomac Interceptor pipeline.

A Anne Arundel Public Works spokesperson said officials learned last month from Baltimore City that they could not purchase additional capacity in the sewage system, prompting the suspension that the county described in its news release as an “emergency.”

Data from the Maryland Department of Health shows 64 people have died due to cold weather.

Saturday through Wednesday, temperatures are expected to climb from the 60s to mid-70s, which is well above average for early March in the Baltimore area, according to the National Weather Service.

According to Baltimore Department of Finance projections, the loss of all that garbage will yield about $4 million less than what budget writers had anticipated.

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.