A View from the Beach

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Fisheries regulators take stock in menhaden After countless years of debate, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted Tuesday ...

Heavy rains, melting snow taking toll on Chesapeake Bay water clarity, threaten bay grasses ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Heavy rains and melting snow a...

All big military operations have a goofy or pretentious name attached to them so the military guys can remember what they're supposed to...

Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s the Only Choice Suppose that Mark and Bill live in a deterministic universe. Everything that happens this ...

Gilchrest: Menhaden restrictions crucial to Chesapeake ecosystem ...nascent outdoorsmen have been noticing disturbances in the complex cha...

A Decade of Boosting Breast Size Breast implant operations have surged 40 percent in the past decade, with nearly 300,000 women last year ...

Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles Ramen in the U.S. has come a long way. Once known only in its 10-for-a-dollar in...

Canadian Harp Seals Showing Up In U.S. Waters Harp Seal in Boston Harbor PORTLAND, Maine -- Harp seals from Canada are showing up in U....

George Monbiot is usually a Malthusian moron , but this is spot on : ...A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a mo...

Scientists create animals that are part-human  In the H.G Wells classic novel The Isle of Dr. Morea u, a cast away finds himself stranded ...

Sammy Hagar claims to have been abducted by aliens "It was real," Hagar told the reporter, according to the story on MTV's Hi...

Sediment loads from runoff are considered to be one of Chesapeake Bays bigger problems.  We tend to think of these problems as coming from c...

A reporter in Japan just held a Geiger Counter up to some vegetables in a plastic bag grown near Fukushima, and it clicked a couple times. H...

Pubic Lice Acquired From Gorillas Pthirus pubis, popularly known as crabs, evolved from the structurally similar gorilla louse, Pthirus gor...

Charlie and I took the late afternoon off to go fishing. We took my boat out around 3 PM and headed down the 3 or so miles to Calvert Cliff...

Jennifer Jo Cobb refuses to start-and-park, quits before race Well, you can't start-and-park when you don't start, right? Jennife...

When we got down to the beach this morning, the first thing we noticed was that a lot of trash was washed up, both literal trash (plastic bo...