The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries have long been suffering from harmful algae blooms caused by excess nutrients running off of the land, due largely to a continually growing population in the ...

In fact, in a 2015 study, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science found that algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay have lasted longer and occurred more frequently over the last 20 ...

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science shows an increase in ecosystem-disrupting events in ...

NORFOLK-- Something growing in the Chesapeake Bay could mean trouble for marine life. Scientists call it an algal bloom, microscopic algae that accumulate and can cause big problems. Earlier this ...

In the early 2000s, several bay states used market forces to cut nutrient pollution from wastewater plants and other “point ...

Intense, widespread algal blooms reported in Chesapeake Bay. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 28, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 09 / 150901144353.htm. Virginia Institute of Marine ...

A common algae species has turned Chesapeake Bay tributaries rusty-red, and while it isn’t harmful to humans these types of algae blooms carry the potential to irritate gills, suffocate fish and ...

NORFOLK As the plane banked east over the Chesapeake Bay, the waters along Willoughby Spit and Ocean View suddenly turned brown, streaked by long dark strands of something foreign swirling toward s… ...

The blooms can be seen on each side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, as ripples of mahogany-colored patches contrasted against the regular water of the Chesapeake Bay. “They can negatively ...

Bioluminescent algae lights up a wave at Chic’s Beach near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel on Saturday, September 5, 2020, night.

It's already been a rough season for Maryland crabs---and now there's word that it could get worse. Massive rain last week has led to an algae bloom in the Chesapeake Bay.

A common algae species has turned Chesapeake Bay tributaries rusty-red, and while it isn’t harmful to humans these types of algae blooms carry the potential to irritate gills, suffocate fish and ...