"Grass is back and thriving in the Chesapeake Bay, and that bodes well for not only your dinner plate but the future of human-led efforts to restore polluted ecosystems.

The bay is seeing its greatest growth of underwater grasses in almost half a century, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists and conservationists have long devoted efforts to cleaning up the bay and restoring the vegetation that serves as a “sentinel” for its overall health. Recently they evaluated how those efforts played out over the past three decades."

Katherine Hafner reports for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot April 13, 2018. [2]