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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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Skytalk
Space

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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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)
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Environment
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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 ...

8 years ago

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Environment
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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Technology

Study: Breakthroughs can boost public’s trust of science but only temporarily

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

8 years ago

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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)
Energy
Environment
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

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Radio Times
Biology

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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a solar eclipse
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Space

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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StateImpact

Natural gas building boom fuels climate worries, enrages landowners

8 years ago

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Biology
Environment
Medicine

Heat Wave

It’s summer, and it’s hot. On this episode, we get stranded on an urban ‘heat island’ and learn what people are d ...

Air Date: July 28, 2017

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Space

Shine on, you crazy Earth

This is a great week to watch the development of lunar phases. Start watching on Monday night, with a barely visible 1.5-day old thin cre ...

Air Date: July 24, 2017

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Space
Technology
Transportation

Leap of Space

On July 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act and soon we sent men where only our imaginations h ...

Air Date: July 21, 2017

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