An area in the DMV known as Chesapeake Bay is home to multiple beaches along its shorelines. During the Jim Crow Era when segregation ran deep, the Black community wasn’t welcome to enjoy the sandy ...

Carnelious Jones was volunteering aboard the Amistad, a replica of the historic cargo schooner, when Vince Leggett walked into his life. Jones, whose company had donated fuel to the Amistad, had been ...

A new story map chronicles 65 historically black beaches and other places of black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and Chesapeake ...

The Chesapeake Bay has long been a lifeline, nurturing the growth of Marylanders from the Piscataway people to European settlers, and continues to provide the seafood on dinner tables today. From the ...

Blue crab populations in Maryland and Virginia are facing a massive decline. According to results issued from the annual blue crab winter dredge survey conducted by the Virginia Institute of Marine ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A multimillion-dollar project to expand the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) is now at a standstill after crews made an unexpected discovery at the bottom of the bay floor.

Shifting baselines in Chesapeake Bay, the immense protein factory -- Why was Chesapeake Bay so productive and how has that productivity changed? -- The spring fishery for shad and river herring was a ...

Chesapeake ecosystem : its geologic heritage / George W. Fisher and Jerry R. Schubel -- Climate and climate history in the Chesapeake Bay region / John E. Kutzbach and Thompson Webb III -- Forests ...

The Chesapeake Executive Council, the top body responsible for making policy decisions on the watershed’s restoration, on Tuesday adopted a revised Bay Watershed Agreement extending the region’s ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A multimillion-dollar project to expand the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) is now at a standstill after crews made an unexpected discovery at the bottom of the bay floor.