THE MAY 10 editorial, “Federal protection for wetlands,” painted an inaccurate picture of the current status and management of Maryland’s wetlands. First, the facts show that Maryland’s ...

But in Maryland and several other Chesapeake Bay states, the impact of the decision will be blunted by the existence of state laws protecting wetlands that are newly excluded from federal oversight.

The Environmental Integrity Project criticized the proposed rule and issued a report citing data from the University of Maryland that suggests 54 square miles of wetlands on Eastern Shore farmland ...

Maryland legislators have passed the Whole ... list for the benefit of the Bay and local communities.” More on wetland conservation Vital wetlands see expansion across Chesapeake Bay region ...

The Coastal Carbon Atlas and Library map how wetlands store carbon ... Meanwhile, the market has begun catching up to wetlands’ value for people and economies. Maryland, where SERC and the ...

Two U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists have created new, more accurate maps of the Chesapeake Bay's forested wetlands with the help of sensors. The new maps are about 30 percent more ...

ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland board approved a wetlands license on Wednesday for work that would be needed to prepare for a potential third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in ...

What are wetlands? Quite literally, they’re areas where water covers soil. The soppy nature of these geographical terrains has always proved tricky to map for organizations like the Chesapeake ...

In the new study, the team simulated a hotter future using an experiment on a wetland at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Maryland. The experiment goes by the name "SMARTX ...

Maryland legislators have passed the Whole Watershed Act to establish pilot programs to implement watershed conservation measures across the state, especially on the Eastern Shore. The Whole ...