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Avalon's new weather station is mounted high above rooflines for accurate information (Borough of Avalon)
Environment
New Jersey
Public Safety

Avalon adds high-tech weather equipment for real-time storm information

Avalon has invested in tracking equipment that will allow it to make weather conditions easily available to residents of the borough at t ...

8 years ago

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are studying barn owls to understand how the brain maintains focus.
(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
NPR
Mental Health

Scientists study barn owls to understand why people with ADHD struggle to focus

Kids with ADHD are easily distracted. Barn owls are not.

8 years ago

A work truck drives on Hwy 24 as the wind from Hurricane Florence blows palm trees in Swansboro N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. (Tom Copeland/AP Photo)
Environment
Public Safety

Florence close to landfall in N. Carolina

The powerful storm already has inundated coastal streets with ocean water and left tens of thousands without power.

8 years ago

Hurricane Florence will bring tropical storm conditions to North Carolina and South Carolina on Thursday and hurricane conditions on Friday. This satellite image was captured around 1:45 p.m. ET Wednesday. (NOAA/STAR)
Environment

Time nearly up: Fierce Hurricane Florence aims at Southeast

Time is running short to flee Hurricane Florence, a monster of a storm zeroing in on the Southeastern coast with more than 10 million people in its potential path.

8 years ago

DCNR forester Ben Gamble, left, and Kelly Sitch, right, an ecologist for the agency, on a pipeline right-of-way in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Front

Bringing the forest back after shale gas

The Pennsylvania DCNR is testing how best to revive areas cleared for fracking.

8 years ago

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A nearly 2,000-foot-long tube is towed offshore from San Francisco Bay on Saturday. It's a giant garbage collector, and the brainchild of 24-year-old Boyan Slat, who aims to remove 90 percent of ocean plastic by 2040. (The Ocean Cleanup)
NPR
Environment
Innovation
International

A massive floating boom is supposed to clean up the Pacific. Can it work?

"The ocean really needs all the help it can get."

8 years ago

FILE- In this Dec. 28, 1988, file photo shows members of the
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Space

Starstruck by Star Trek

52 years ago, the television show Star Trek premiered! It spawned a whole new approach to space exploration and had an impact on ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018

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Radio Times
Environment

Climate change, environmental regulation, and the Chesapeake Bay comeback

Guests: Jennifer Francis, Juliet Eilperin, ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018 10:00 am

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Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the southeastern U.S. coast as a major hurricane on Thursday or Friday, after rapidly intensifying.
(National Weather Service)
NPR
Environment

Hurricane Florence spins up into a category 4 storm, aiming at U.S. East Coast

Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the southeastern U.S. as "a large and extremely dangerous hurricane," the National Hurricane Center says.

8 years ago

The Sahara desert creeps up on a palm field. (Fadel Senna /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
International

A scientist dreams up a plan to stop the Sahara from expanding

The Sahara desert is expanding, and has been for at least a century. It's a phenomenon that seems impossible to stop.

8 years ago

Florence, expected to approach arrive at the U.S. East Coast late this week, has just been named a hurricane. (Courtesy of the National Hurricane Center)
NPR
Environment

Florence, now a hurricane, is one of many threats to the Atlantic and Pacific

A slew of dangerous storms – hurricanes, tropical storms and a typhoon — are currently traveling over both the Atlantic and Pacific.

8 years ago

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NPR
Biology

WATCH: ‘Superpod’ of dolphins seen racing off California coast

We know what we'll be doing this weekend: turning up the sound and watching this video on repeat.

8 years ago

RNG Energy's Heartland biofuel/anaerobic digester in Colorado, similar to the plant proposed for a PES refinery site. (Photo courtesy of RNG Energy)
PlanPhilly
Economy
Energy
Environment
PlanPhilly

Mixed reviews for a proposed $120M renewable-energy plant at South Philly refinery

Making energy out of trash has great environmental appeal.

8 years ago

An unmanned automobile competes in the i-VISTA (Intelligent Vehicle Integrated Systems Test Area) Autonomous Driving Challenge on August 18 in Chongqing, China. (VCG/Getty)
NPR
Innovation
Technology
Transportation

What happens when A.I. takes the wheel?

Telling the story of how self-driving cars went from being a Sci-Fi fantasy to a possibility.

8 years ago

The women farmers of the Circuito Agroecológico Aiboniteño work together to build a swale on a guava orchard. (Paige Pfleger/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment

After Maria, farmers build resilience through sustainability

In Puerto Rico, a group of farmers help each other rebuild and prepare for the coming hurricane season.

8 years ago

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