WOODS HOLE, Mass., April 11 (UPI) -- Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts say they've created a satellite map to show the Chesapeake Bay area's urban development.

A new discovery in the Chesapeake Bay has some scientists wondering if North America was first populated by humans who came in that way, instead of across the Bering Strait from Siberia.

The story map highlights places spanning from the landing of the first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America to the creation of Black entertainment venues during the time of Jim Crow.

Three possible locations for a future, additional span across the Chesapeake Bay are still in the running, months after a study of 14 possible crossing locations was first announced. A new update ...

So the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America, so it drains about 6400 square miles of the Atlantic coast, parts of six states and the District of Colombia, it is a huge port area ...

A draft map shows 14 potential alignments for a new Chesapeake Bay crossing. The Maryland Transportation Authority, which is studying possible locations for another bridge, has called the map ...

The Chesapeake Bay would join the list of America’s most treasured parks and natural landscapes under a measure backed by two members of Congress to designate the nation’s largest estuary as a ...

The Chesapeake Bay impactor threw molten debris over 4 million square miles (10 million square km) of land and water, from Massachusetts to Barbados. (Image credit: GEBCO world map 2014) ...