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Dave Ritondo makes rounds to more than a dozen restaurants on the Delaware coast, collecting oyster shells to recycle. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
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Returning restaurants’ oyster shells back to the water

Shell recycling keeps them out of landfills and improves ecosystem health. About 120 miles east of Washington, D.C., Delaware’s ...

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Theresa Dardar is leading an effort among several Louisiana tribes to restore their food sovereignty—the sustainable production of healthy, culturally appropriate food—as the land around them disintegrates. (Courtesy of Edmund D. Fountain)
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Gulf Coast land loss threatens food sovereignty

Pointe-au-Chien and other Louisiana tribes want to protect native ways of eating. Native Americans living along Louisiana’s ...

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Catfish that are part of the Tulane fish collection are stored in jars full of alcohol. Tulane is about to receive a large share of the University of Louisiana Monroe fish collection because ULM no longer wants to support it. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
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When natural history collections bow to other priorities

In 1962, Neil Douglas accepted a position in the brand new biology department of what is now the University of Louisiana Monroe. The scho ...

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Pollution buildup at dam could harm Chesapeake Bay cleanup

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Dam removal helps American shad return after disappearing for centuries

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Why sand doesn’t always look the same in New Jersey

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Pipeline protesters walk out of DEP hearing, calling it a ‘sham’

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Diminished Daylight in the Dog Days

We’ve now lost 25 minutes off sunsets and 30 minutes off sunrises – that’s an hour daylight change already from the sol ...

Air Date: August 14, 2017

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a lunar eclipse
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Total Tune-Up

Monday’s lunar eclipse is the precursor to the August 21 total solar eclipse that will traverse the United States. Dr. Pitts and Da ...

Air Date: August 7, 2017

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This undated photo provided by Matthew Kirwan shows Phragmites and Spartina marshland expanding into a ghost forest in Robbins, Md. Rising sea levels are killing trees along vast swaths of the North American coast by inundating them in salt water. The dead trees in what used to be thriving freshwater coastal environments are called 'ghost forests' by researchers. (Matthew Kirwan via AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
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‘Ghost forests’ proliferating along North American fresh water coastlines

Matthew Kirwan, professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science speaks with NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller. Marshlands a ...

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New Jersey

Margate to U.S. Army Corps: Get off our beach! [photos]

With angry residents packed into the meeting room at Margate’s historic City Hall, not to mention spilling into the hall, onto the fron ...

8 years ago

 This 2016 digitally-colorized electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the Zika virus, in red. (Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC via AP)
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Study: Breakthroughs can boost public’s trust of science but only temporarily

Columnist Tom Friedman notes in his opinion piece in Wednesday’s ...

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A large cooling tower and other buildings at the nuclear power site in Salem County can be seen near a farm in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J., in rural Salem County Nov. 13, 2007.  (Mel Evans, AP, file)
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New Jersey

Group forms to block subsidies for N.J.’s aging nuclear power plans

A newly-formed coalition of consumer, business, and environmental groups is opposing ratepayer-funded subsidies for nuclear power plants. ...

8 years ago

three good pugs
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Dog Evolution

Guests: James Serpell, Bridgett VonHoldt, Elaine Ostrander Dogs are one of the most diverse mammal species on ear ...

Air Date: August 1, 2017

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Follow the Sun

We are now just three weeks out from a total solar eclipse traversing the United States. Those lucky enough to be in the direct path will ...

Air Date: July 31, 2017

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