
Science
Zinke comes to Pa. to talk abandoned mine cleanup
Ryan Zinke, President Trump’s Interior Secretary, came to Western Pennsylvania to tout the federal government’s abandoned mine cleanup program. It was an appropriate setting.
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What happens when a Buddhist environmentalist, a Muslim astronomer … a rabbi and a priest walk into our studio? On this episode, we exp ...
Air Date: March 2, 2018
Listen 49:20How this reporter’s #NoDAPL photo wound up in the Russia investigations
Never did I imagine a photo I took would be used by Russian trolls to try to manipulate the pipeline debate.
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Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact
As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.
7 years ago
Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on
The signal showed unexpectedly cold temperatures and an unusually pronounced wave.
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Environmental groups seek injunction to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction
Several environmental groups have asked the Commonwealth Court for an injunction to halt Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Mariner East 2 pipeline construction.
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Asian ticks (mysteriously) turned up on a New Jersey sheep
Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly a thousand more from the one-acre paddock.
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Guests: Michio Kaku Physicist and futurist MICHIO KAKU theorizes ...
Air Date: February 26, 2018
Listen 49:26NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned images that clearly show thick layers of water ice just beneath the surface and ext ...
Air Date: February 26, 2018
Listen 05:08Early spring peepers might be trouble for rest of food chain
Recent unseasonably warm weather has lured some frogs out of hibernation early. Herpetologists worry what that might mean for them — and other animals.
7 years ago
Listen 2:14FERC order effectively denies appeals of PennEast approval, critics say
Federal regulators have effectively denied a request to reconsider their approval of the planned PennEast Pipeline, the agency’s critics say.
7 years ago
Delaware Bay’s crabs contributing to dip in already threatened red knot population
The red knots stop for nourishment along the Delaware Bay on their annual journey from Chile to the Arctic.
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Sunoco: Mariner East 2, despite shutdown, expected in service by end of June
Sunoco said Thursday it aims to begin operating its Mariner East 2 pipeline across southern Pennsylvania by the end of the second quarter of this year.
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Should tourists go to Antarctica?
Maybe you just want to see penguins or icebergs, but visiting the South Pole also means transforming the landscape — and adding to your carbon debt.
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Listen 7:20Canada’s First Nations use tourism to protect natural resources
Communities along Canada’s western coast combine conservation and tourism to create jobs that line up with their cultural values.
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