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(U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Technology

How 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.

8 years ago

Daniel Raimi, author of the newly released book
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Books
Energy
Environment

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.

8 years ago

This image provided by the National Science Foundation shows a rendering of how the first stars in the universe might have looked. Scientists have detected a signal from 180 million years after the Big Bang when the earliest stars began glowing. The findings were published on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 in the journal Nature. (N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation via AP)
Space

Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on

The signal showed unexpectedly cold temperatures and an unusually pronounced wave.

8 years ago

A backhoe clears land for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County in early 2017. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

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.

8 years ago


The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. (Tadhgh Rainey)
NPR
Biology
International
New Jersey

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.

8 years ago

This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. (Jack Fischer/NASA via AP)
Radio Times
Environment
Space

Exit Earth

Guests: Michio Kaku Physicist and futurist MICHIO KAKU theorizes ...

Air Date: February 26, 2018

Listen 49:26
This image was taken with Opportunity's navigation camera of a large dune on the way to Victoria
Skytalk
Space

Rover Still Rovin’

NASA’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 05:08
Hibernating toads are making their annual leap to breeding grounds — a bit ahead of schedule (WHYY, file)
Environment
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Early 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.

8 years ago

Listen 2:14
A sign protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline route in Carbon County, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

FERC 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.

8 years ago

This photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a red knot in Mispillion Harbor, Delaware.  (Gregory Breese, USFWS/AP Photo)
Delaware
Environment

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.

8 years ago

A Mariner East 2 construction site in Lebanon County. Sunoco says it expects to have the pipeline in service by the end of the second quarter, 2018. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment

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.

8 years ago

Sherry Ott says Antarctica is as close as you'll come to leaving the planet.
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Travel

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.

8 years ago

Listen 7:20
Visitors watch a bear feasting on salmon. The Homalco Nation has invested in a wildlife viewing operation on its territory.
The Pulse
Environment

Canada’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.

8 years ago

Listen 7:45
Workers pass bags of concrete in a human chain from a park road to a zip line platform further down the hill in El Yunque National Forest. T
The Pulse
Environment
Travel

Fixing a forest for Puerto Rico’s recovery

Tourists once flocked to El Yunque National Forest. After landslides of hurricane damage in 2017, work crews are sweating to reopen it.

8 years ago

Listen 6:04
Refinery workers at Philadelphia Energy Solutions wait to hear Republican Senator Ted Cruz speak at a rally against the Renewable Fuel Standards. The company blames the program for its financial troubles in a recent bankruptcy filing.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Ted Cruz blasts renewable fuel standards at Philadelphia refinery

Speaking to hundreds of refinery workers, Cruz railed against the federal program known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), while the workers cheered.

8 years ago

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