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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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An executioner, portrayed by Eastern State Penitentiary's Sean Kelly, slices watermelons in half with a guillotine.
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Marie Antoinette may escape the guillotine, but Philly Bastille celebration meets its end

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner may – or may not – take part in the festivities. He says he does see similarities between France of 1789 and the U.S. of 2018.

7 years ago

The Wall of Names rises at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County, Pennsylvania (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Pennsylvania

Flight 93 Memorial nears completion in Pennsylvania

This final stage is dubbed the Tower of Voices — a 93-foot concrete structure that’ll be adorned with 40 chimes — for each of the passengers and crew members killed

7 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight, July 10, 2018

The national Republican party has effectively disowned its candidate for a South Jersey Congressional seat after new revelations that he ...

Air Date: July 10, 2018

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By some accounts, almost half of the incarcerated population in the U.S. suffers from mental illness. (Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images)
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Behind bars, mentally ill inmates are often punished for their symptoms

By some accounts, nearly half of America's incarcerated population is mentally ill — and journalist Alisa Roth argues that most aren't getting the treatment they need.

7 years ago

Traffic safety advocates form a
PlanPhilly
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PlanPhilly

Near a Center City Wawa, humans protect a bike lane, to make a larger point

A line, 25 deep, stretched out in front of the Wawa at 22nd and South streets Tuesday morning. They lined up on 22nd Street to form a “human-protected" bike lane.

7 years ago

Ocean Grove beach. (By Jackie from Monmouth County, NJ, USA (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0  (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)
Down the Shore
New Jersey

Pennsylvania man drowns in waters off N.J.

In the last week, people have died after being pulled from the ocean off Island Beach State Park, Normandy Beach, and Surf City. 

7 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles' Malcolm Jenkins, (center), gestures during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, in Philadelphia.
Sports

NFL players union files grievance over anthem policy

The NFL Players Association filed a grievance with the league challenging its national anthem policy.

7 years ago

A clinging jellyfish found near Tices Shoal in the Barnegat Bay, a popular boating hangout. (Dr. Paul Bologna)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Dozens of dangerous jellyfish found near Barnegat Bay’s Tices Shoal

The dangerous and invasive clinging jellyfish continue to head south along the Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, a marine biologist says.

7 years ago

Delaware State Police
Delaware

Delaware man killed wife, 3 young children in murder-suicide

A man shot his wife and their three children to death, then killed himself, in their Delaware home.

7 years ago

In the distance, construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline at Raystown Lake Recreation Area in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Lindsay Lazarski / StateImpact PA
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

‘No wake zone’ for boaters at Raystown Lake will accommodate Mariner East 2 pipeline work

7 years ago

Onlookers in Chiang Rai, Thailand, watch and cheer as ambulances transport some of the rescued schoolboys from a cave where they were trapped for two weeks.
NPR

All 12 boys and their coach are rescued from Thai cave, after 2 weeks

An elite team of Thai Navy SEALs and foreign rescue divers brought out two more boys from a cave near the Thai-Myanmar border

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight

NewsWorks Tonight July 9, 2018

A federal court upholds New Jersey’s overhaul of its bail system.  A Pennsylvania judge has emerged as a top contender for Preside ...

Air Date: July 9, 2018

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Mike Scotese sits for a portrait in his bar, the Grey Lodge Pub, in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday, June 28, 2018. Scotese said the bar business is not going as well as it once did. (TIM TAI, Inquirer/Daily News Staff Photographer)
Broke in Philly

Philadelphians feel squeezed as U.S. economy seems to hum. That’s a poverty problem

It’s also true that, compared with the country as a whole, Philadelphia is not measuring up, although income levels have been rising lately and we’ve seen job growth.

7 years ago

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Public Safety

Shore strip mall fire that destroyed 5 businesses deemed suspicious

A fast-moving fire that destroyed five businesses at a New Jersey strip mall has been deemed suspicious. The Ocean County Prosecut ...

7 years ago

Emergency workers respond to the scene of a crash that killed five members of the same family in Delaware Friday afternoon on Route 1. (Courtesy Clayton Fire Department)
Delaware
New Jersey

Cable barriers planned for site of fatal Route 1 crash in Delaware

There were no guard rails separating north and southbound lanes of Route 1 where five members of a New Jersey family were killed Friday afternoon.

7 years ago

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