BALTIMORE – Sewage overflows in Baltimore City surged more than 54,400 percent in 2003, according to city Department of Public Works data, 20 months after Baltimore signed a $940 million federal consent decree mandating a 14-year overhaul of its sewage system

ANNAPOLIS – Unauthorized raw sewage overflows in Maryland skyrocketed more than 1,250 percent this year, threatening human and environmental health, as record rainfall and Hurricane Isabel overwhelmed sewage systems across the state

ANNAPOLIS – When Hurricane Isabel knocked out power across Prince George’s County, 96 million gallons of hazardous untreated sewage mixed with storm water and overflowed into Western Branch and Broad Creek

RIDGELY – As a child, Eric Johansen thought bonsai trees only grew in far away and exotic Asian counties such as China or Japan

WYE MILLS – A clone of Maryland’s state tree, the legendary Wye Oak, will one day stand in this village where its parent once towered, Gov

ANNAPOLIS- Environmentalists and fishing groups put differences aside at a meeting here Tuesday to urge an immediate crackdown on nitrogen pollution flowing into the Chesapeake Bay, which they said is a cause of shrinking fisheries

ANNAPOLIS – Blue crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay stabilized this year after a decade-long decline, but still remain at a “historic low point” for the bay’s No

ANNAPOLIS – The Chesapeake Bay Foundation released its annual report card on the health of the bay Tuesday, reporting “dismal” findings at odds with recent reports of overall bay improvement

ANNAPOLIS – Nature will offer an alternative to prime-time television this evening, when Earth’s shadow completely eclipses the moon and reflected light in the atmosphere could turn our planet’s rocky satellite copper-red

MIDDLETOWN – Randy Sowers, a dairy farmer here for 22 years, says his farm has never shown a profit, so he and other farmers who sold development rights to the state through easements should retain the right to buy them back after 25 years