Chesapeake Uncharted

How a radio station in central Pennsylvania defied official weather experts and delivered an accurate flooding forecast during Tropical Storm Agnes.

Fifty years ago, "America's Estuary" was beginning to show signs of ecological collapse. But outside of a handful of environmentalists and academics, few people took much note. When a seemingly harmless tropical storm charged up from the Gulf of Mexico, few people took much note of that either. But within a few wild and tragic days in June of 1972, Tropical Storm Agnes changed the way people thoug...

What matters most in the fight against climate change: individual action or collective action? Learn this and the best way to prepare a filet of blue catfish. 

Agriculture is both a cause of and solution to climate change. Which will win out?

A massive effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay faces more problems with a hotter, stormier world because of climate change.

Rising waters are swallowing historic sites along shorelines, portending a future in which we've lost key pieces of our past.

What oysters in the sea and birds in the marsh tell us about our changing Chesapeake.

President Trump told the mayor of Tangier Island that the community has nothing to fear from climate change. Experts aren't so sure. 

Fighting sea level rise doesn't have to mean a huge construction project. Here, we examine policies and green solutions that could save coastal communities in the Chesapeake Bay region.

Cities, from the small to the huge, prepare for a wetter future. We visit Alexandria, VA; Eagle Harbor, MD; and Norfolk to answer the question: Can we afford it?

Wetlands are migrating to higher ground en masse. Barrier islands are losing the race to stay above water. And vast expanses of trees are transforming into "ghost forests." Hear how the natural world is responding to climate change in the Chesapeake Bay region.

Climate change is making it hotter. But communities of color are likely to feel the heat more. In Richmond, VA, solutions are being tested that could point the way for other American cities.

A thousand-year flood is supposed to happen only once every thousand years, right? Wrong! Ellicott City was struck by such storms in 2016 and 2018. Was it climate change?

Climate change is happening here and now in the Chesapeake Bay region. Here is a preview of Season One of "Chesapeake Uncharted."