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The shark, trashing its head, sunk its teeth into the whale.

During its heydays,Shelly Beach was reminiscent of Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs in the US or Jeffreys Bay in South Africa.

Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Everything we know about Biden’s mysterious Clean Energy Standard Source: By Benjamin Storrow, E&E News • Posted: Monday, August 2, 2021 President Biden talks with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) by videoconference Friday about the effects of climate change in the West. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo The previous two U.S. presidents tried and failed to remake America’s energy sector. President Obama attempted to curb greenhouse gas emissions with a cap-and-trade program and, later, with regulations on power plants. President Trump went in th...

But reeds not natural to the United States are choking the wetlands, killing the native plants and eliminating  food supplies for native wildlife.  “It’s slowly taking over. It’s taking away everything that is natural to this area,” said Megan Williams of Friends of Calvert Cliffs State Park.  “Most people call it phrag or phragmites,” said Autumn Phillips-Lewis, co-owner of EcoHaven. “That is a non-native, invasive species brought over from Europe in the early eighteenth century.” In an attempt to save the wetlands, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources partnered ...

Some of the most pristine and local historic wetlands are under threat. But the threat isn’t from development or pollution. News4’s Mark Segraves shows how teams of volunteers are fighting the reeds that threaten Calvert Cliffs and other parks across the country.