Chesapeake Bay

Climate change threatens to wipe isolated Tangier Island off the map. The coronavirus pandemic adds new peril to its existence.
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her young son, Gideon, disappeared after winds appeared to overwhelm their boat on the Chesapeake Bay.
The search for Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her 8-year-old son began Thursday after their canoe went missing in the Chesapeake Bay.
Suffocating oceans could lead to ecosystem collapse, the study says.
The president has proposed cutting funding for programs to restore the heavily polluted region.
"The forests were providing a certain amount of nitrates and phosphates to the Chesapeake Bay.”
A federally funded cleanup effort is finally restoring the bay's ecology, bringing back oyster jobs.