Climate & environment

Officials announced this week that the recovery of the fossil and others nearby elevate the park’s classification to a bone bed, the first discovered in Maryland since 1887.

Several entities — including the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Maryland Watermen’s Association and states downstream from Pennsylvania — filed lawsuits against the EPA in 2020, alleging the federal government failed to require Pennsylvania to develop and carry out pollution-reduction plans.

The James Webb Space Telescope has been operational for a year, transforming the way scientists understand the universe. It is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

The northern lights will not be visible in Maryland this week. Sorry if we got your hopes up.

Western Maryland and portions of central and eastern Maryland are under the watch because of lower-than-normal stream flows and groundwater levels for this time of year.

How has travel been affected by weather changes? Is it going to get better? I talked to a travel consultant to help answer those questions.

Much of Maryland is under a flood watch Sunday, according to the National Weather Service, and could see severe thunderstorms produce excessive rainfall and strong winds.

The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity in 17 states.

For several months, the General Assembly has been dealing with a post-election series of departures and appointments.

Scientists say seagrass acreage is expanding and the bay's toxic "dead zone" could shrink by as much as a third this year.

The region’s fishery managers are far from confident that a surfeit of blue crabs now lurks beneath the bay’s surf. But they say that results from the just-released wintertime survey were promising enough to relax some of the restrictions.

Climate change, spelling hotter and wetter weather, is increasing the frequency and severity of storms. Maybe it’s altering clouds, too.

In early June 2023, scientists confirmed that El Niño climate conditions are present in the Pacific Ocean. This comic explains what El Niño is and what effects it will have on U.S. and Maryland weather.

Cownose rays return to Maryland every summer — even though the state used to have killing competitions for them.

Canadian wildfire smoke is expected to linger through Thursday in the Baltimore region, but forecasters say the general public is less likely to be affected than when the Air Quality Index reached dangerous levels in early June.

No need for an exterminator: Bees on the roof and in backyards are part of the rise in urban beekeeping and environmental responsibility in the city.

A two-alarm apartment fire sparked by a lightning strike caused an apartment building to partially collapse Monday evening in Bel Air.

BGE crews were working to restore power to more than 4,100 customers affected by Monday night’s storms, mostly in Baltimore County.

Some 5.1 million Marylanders live in areas that are failing to meet EPA‘s ground-level ozone standards and suffering adverse health effects, including higher levels of asthma.

Baltimore fire officials this week released the results of their investigation into an explosion at a contractor facility at the plant, stating a spark in the dryer ignited dust and caused an explosion that then ignited thermal oil.