News

When It Rains It Pours — With Road Salt It Creates a Bad Brew

February 1, 2024

It's that time of year when we're all looking for ways to manage the snow that falls on our streets, walkways, and driveways. Road deicers are most often some forms of salt, which create an unsavory, salty situation in our streams.

Save the Bay News: Industrial Sludge, Living Shorelines, and What’s Ahead in 2024

January 26, 2024

Advocacy efforts are in full swing this month as legislators return to state houses and the Capitol. Take a look at our top priorities for the Bay in the coming months.

Are Toxic Chemicals in your Neighborhood?

January 24, 2024

The Virginia General Assembly is considering a bill that would ban cancer-linked products. Here's why they should pass the ban.

Five Ways We’re Advocating for the Bay in 2024

January 23, 2024

Legislative sessions have kicked off around the watershed. Here’s what we’re fighting for in 2024.

For Family, Farming, and Clean Water

January 19, 2024

Cost-share funds available through Pennsylvania's Agricultural Conservation Assistance Program (ACAP) help Greg Strayer keep his family farm going, so that someday he can pass it to his children.

Don't Leave Lakeside Planning up to Chance

January 3, 2024

Talbot County officials should closely monitor the development's growth and ensure sewage discharge and other plans are not harming Talbot's way of life.

Let's Pay Farmers for Outcomes That Restore Virginia Rivers, Streams, and the Chesapeake Bay

December 29, 2023

To create healthier rivers and streams for future generations Virginia legislators could launch a new pilot program that pays farmers based on how much cleaner they leave nearby waterways.

Stop the Influx of Industrial Sludge!

December 27, 2023

Maryland has become a dumping ground for the region's industrial sludge waste. But what is industrial sludge and why does it matter?

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Living Shorelines

December 21, 2023

What are living shorelines and how do they benefit property owners and the Bay?

Save the Bay News: Your Favorite Stories of 2023

December 15, 2023

From struggling striped bass (AKA “rockfish” or “stripers”) to a major new scientific report that could shape the future of watershed restoration, we take a look back at the most popular stories of 2023.

Top Three Advocacy Wins for the Bay in 2023

December 12, 2023

We look back at what our clean water advocates accomplished across the watershed this year.

Heart and Science: The Chesapeake Bay Needs Both

December 5, 2023

To succeed in the next chapter of bay-saving, we’re going to have to widen conservation’s historically narrow lens. We can’t focus so pointedly on trying to recreate the past that we neglect to build for the future—a future that recognizes that nature and human communities are intertwined.

Save the Bay News: Living Shorelines, Urban Farms, and People-Centered Conservation

November 16, 2023

This month, we discuss what it means to center people in conservation. When we do it successfully, it not only moves watershed restoration forward, but also builds community.

Being the Bay’s Voice

November 13, 2023

For nearly two decades, CBF’s Volunteers as Chesapeake Stewards (VoiCeS) program has inspired hundreds of dedicated volunteers to serve their community and the Bay.

Little Pieces of Life, Green, and Community

November 9, 2023

In building local food systems that support community and environmental wellbeing, small and urban farms have an outsized impact.

Living Shoreline Builds Resilience—and Community

November 8, 2023

This summer, roughly 90 volunteers from all walks of life came together for 10 weeks to restore waterfront in Portsmouth, Virginia. Community and comradery ensued.

A Place for People

November 6, 2023

There are more than 18 million people who live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, who don’t all look the same, have the same background, or speak the same language. But we are connected by the right—not the privilege—to clean water.

Successful Virginia Buffer-planting Program is Worth Replicating in the Farm Bill

November 3, 2023

After just four years, the James River Buffer Program is already responsible for planting more than 900 acres of forested buffers on several dozen properties in the Middle and Upper James River watershed in Virginia.

Back from the Edge

November 2, 2023

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has had remarkable success, saving 99 percent of the species on its list. While some species have tragically been lost forever, these three Chesapeake comeback stories give us hope.

Save the Bay News: Healing Headwaters, Pollution Hotspots, and Eating Local

October 27, 2023

The Chesapeake Bay region’s food system profoundly affects the watershed and the people who live here. Our latest newsletter features stories about how to meaningfully address pollution from agriculture—the largest source of pollution to the Bay but also a critical part of our economy and way of life.

What Would a Dream Food System Look Like?

October 23, 2023

CBF's Clagett Farm Vegetable Production Manager Jared Planz discusses the value of eating local.

Watershed Out of Balance: How Industrial Agriculture Tips the Scales

October 20, 2023

With intensifying livestock production in places like the Eastern Shore of Maryland, many are finding that conservation practices can’t keep up with pollution.