Chronicling the Chesapeake Bay: A Reporter's Notebook


Jul
27
By Leslie Walker  // 

The Great Chesapeake Toilet Bowl

Is your favorite swimming spot dirtier than toilet water? That’s what News21 set out to learn this summer by taking water samples from popular beaches and recreation [...]

Jul
7
By Rabiah Alicia Burks  // 

Upper Marlboro Farm a Model of Best Practices

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – The manager of Clagett Farm strides across a large pasture, expertly avoiding cow dung. As if accustomed to the drill, roughly 45 hungry [...]

Jun
30
By Allison Frick  // 

Migratory Birds, Fish Could Feel Impact of Gulf Spill

OCEAN CITY, Md.– It is extremely unlikely that oil from the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of Mexico will make its way into Maryland’s waters, but [...]

Jun
29
By Justin Karp  // 

Fixing Anacostia Pollution Won’t Be Quick

WASHINGTON – Renovations to the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant — needed to help shore up an antiquated sewer system in the nation’s capital — are a [...]

Jun
25
By Alex Moe  // 

A Crabber’s Life: Days Are Consumed by the Water

SHADY SIDE, Md. – Capt. Bob Evans has the same routine six days a week, each and every week, during the warm months. He sets out on [...]

Jun
25
By Justin Karp  // 

All Signs Point to the Anacostia

News21 photo by Justin Karp Signs like the one above, which dot storm drains throughout the portion of Prince George’s County that lies in the Anacostia River [...]

Jun
25
By jennifer.hlad  // 

Experts: Gulf Oil Shouldn’t Threaten Md.

WASHINGTON – Seafood coming from the Gulf of Mexico region is “absolutely safe” and Maryland is “very, very unlikely” to see any oil from the British Petroleum [...]

Jun
24
By Sharon Behn  // 

Chesapeake Dead Zone: Nation’s Third Largest

GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — The Chesapeake Bay has the third largest “dead zone” or oxygen-starved area of water in the United States, typically spreading across 1,500 square [...]

Jun
24
By Justin Karp  // 

Suburbanites Disconnected from Impact on Anacostia

WASHINGTON – The stream that runs behind the houses in Salil Kharkar’s Silver Spring neighborhood impacts the quality of the water in the Anacostia River, just downstream. [...]

Jun
18
By Sharon Behn  // 

Experts Question Spill Preparedness in Chesapeake

As Congress hears testimony about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico spill, scientists and environmentalists question how prepared the government is to respond if a ship [...]

Jun
18
By Kate Yanchulis  // 

Bay Swim Attracts Hundreds in Balmy Conditions

News21 reporter Kate Yanchulis wrote the following — part of a longer story published by several area news organizations: SANDY POINT STATE PARK, Md. – Hundreds of [...]

Jun
11
By Sharon Behn  // 

Swim in the Bay? No Way!

EASTON, Md. – Eighty-seven year old Clarence “Doc” Kuntz has been folding his long legs into borrowed kayaks for three years to pick up trash on the [...]

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Bay on the Brink is a multimedia reporting project examining the fate of the Chesapeake Bay. It is produced by fellows at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism as part of News21, a consortium of journalism schools. This is the fellows' blog. The full project site is here: http://chesapeake.news21.com
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