Page 38 - Chesapeake Bay Program News Today

Annual Bay Barometer shows mixed recovery of Chesapeake Bay ecosystem Published Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2021, 10:54 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Government/Politics » Politics2 » Annual Bay Barometer shows mixed recovery of Chesapeake Bay ecosystem The Chesapeake Bay Program’s 2021 Bay Barometer shows an ecosystem in recovery...

Invasive plants can have a slow but devastating effect on an ecosystem. By outcompeting native plants for resources like sun and water, they reduce natural diversity, alter soil conditions and, ultimately, wipe out native wildlife habitats. "It starts with the insects, then the birds that eat them and all the way up the food chain," said Blake Moore, Delaware Invasive Species Council chairman. "Its just really important to protect our native plant species here in Delaware." Moore is also a ho...

He says the economic benefits of coal mining came with a big cost.

Photograph by JMPhoto64 via iStock. Pestilence follows pandemic this year as the 17-year cicadas dubbed Brood X emerge in May. Although one could embrace the return of the bugs that allegedly taste like shrimp, you wouldn’t be blamed for wanting to hightail it away from the flying insects. Spots in Southern Maryland and parts of the Eastern Shore south of Kent County should be havens from the rude brood, according to a map tracking cicadas in the Mid-Atlantic region. “It’s going to be s...

For the small city of Kingston, NY, snug along the banks of the Hudson River 90 miles north of New York City, Superstorm Sandy, which tore up the East Coast in 2012, was a wake-up call. It was residents’ first real taste of how climate-related upstream flooding imperiled the character and geography of their historic city, settled by Dutch immigrants in 1652 and at one time the state’s first capital. Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 devastated parts of Kingston, NY, located a...

Federal clean water laws don’t cover private wells or small water systems, and state-level protections vary dramatically.

Close A new viral Facebook post revealed an interesting fact about sea creatures. Theres a so-called sea whip coral that looks exactly like an abandoned long cable wire. In fact, anyone could have mistaken this sea creature as a trash. Heres what sea whip coral is. And why you should be careful on not to throw them. Garbage sea creature? Be Careful What You Call Trash in the Sea, It Could be Sea Whip The photo above was taken by Texas Padre Island National Seashore, posted on their official Fa...

The planned restoration of a stretch of Taylor Run drew widespread community concern at a virtual project update on Jan. 28, as environmentalists and residents questioned how effective and harmful the project will be. City staff’s plan is to implement a natural channel design in a 1,900-foot section of Taylor Run from a sewer outfall near Chinquapin Recreation Center to First Baptist Church on King Street. The city’s stated goal with the project is to stabilize the degraded channel and expo...

Worried about mounting conservation mandates and their prohibitive costs, local stakeholders continue to raise concerns about the development of a plan to clean previously overlooked pollution piled up behind a Maryland dam. The strategy, which is in its final planning stages, is likely to have an impact in Lancaster County, especially its farmland, which contributes pollutants to the downstream Conowingo Dam. Now, officials in the county and across the state are concerned about the Conowingo p...

Concerned about infrastructure standards not keeping up with the reality of climate change, Sen. Sarah Elfreth has introduced a bill that calls for updating the data used to inform regulations and updating it every five years.