Latest "chesapeake bay" stories

Revolutionary War shipwrecks get first good look in years

In May, for the first time in nearly three decades, archaeologists slipped into the murky York to assess what's left of the Lost Fleet at Yorktown, a British convoy sent to its doom during the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.

By Joanne Kimberlin, The Virginian-Pilot

4 years ago

How the armed forces inadvertently helped to decimate, then save, the osprey (feathery kind)

Along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, nearly 20,000 Ospreys now arrive to nest each spring — the largest concentration of breeding pairs in the world. Two-thirds of them nest on buoys and channel markers maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, who have become de facto Osprey guardians.

By Alan Poole, Cornell University

4 years ago