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A view of a car driving away from the Homer City Generating Station.
Business
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant to shut down

Homer City Generating Station will shut down by July due to competition from cheap natural gas and pollution upgrade costs. The plant was a major air polluter in its heyday.

2 years ago

Roger Payne attends the Raw for the Oceans Spring/Summer 2015 collection show presented by G-Star RAW and Bionic during Fashion Week on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 in New York
Animals
Biology
Environment

Roger Payne, scientist who discovered whales can sing, dies at 88

Payne saw the discovery of whale song as a chance to spur interest in saving the giant animals, who were disappearing from the planet.

2 years ago

The ChatGPT app
Innovation
Technology

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

Lawmakers in Europe have signed off on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for artificial intelligence.

2 years ago

An overhead view of a burnt forest.
NPR
Environment
International
Public Health
Public Safety

Rain may soon help put out flames in Canada’s worst recorded wildfire season

Rain is expected to start on Sunday evening, potentially helping to put out wildfires in Canada's Alberta and Quebec provinces.

2 years ago

Blood is drained from horseshoe crabs.
NPR
Animals
Environment
Medicine

Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability

Horseshoe crab blood is used to test vaccines around the world.

2 years ago

A person cycles past the Philadelphia skyline which is shrouded in a smoky haze.
NPR
Environment
National
Public Health

When will air quality improve? A lot is riding on the wind

Experts say the weather pattern could change by early next week, and stress the need to take precautions until then.

2 years ago

The Benjamin Franklin Bridge and the Philadelphia skyline are shrouded in haze, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Public Health
6abc

Why is smoke from Canada impacting the Philadelphia region and when will it go away?

A Code Red Air Quality Alert will be in effect for Delaware Thursday, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey will be under a Code Orange.

2 years ago

Solar panels from a project at a water treatment plant are shown Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Millburn, N.J., that provides enough electricity to power 95% of the treatment facilities electrical needs
Energy
New Jersey
Outdoors

N.J. utilities float solar panels on reservoir, powering water treatment plant

Two New Jersey utilities have joined forces on a clean energy project to pump water from a reservoir to 84,000 homes and businesses.

2 years ago

Tredyffrin Township police arrest protesters at the Matthews Road entrance to Vanguard offices. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Economy
Energy
Environment
Sustainability

How climate activists are working to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and into renewables

They are increasingly targeting corporations, asset managers, and retirement funds with both moral suasion and financial muscle.

2 years ago

Listen 7:15
Horseshoe crabs are visible on the beach.
Animals
Delaware
Environment

‘Sometimes they need a little help’: Flip a horseshoe crab if on its back, conservationists say

Horseshoe crabs are crucial to the watershed ecosystem. So conservationists want you to help them when they’re stuck on their backs.

2 years ago

Denver, Colorado
Delaware
Environment
Public Health

Delaware poor air quality alert until midnight Friday linked to Canadian wildfires

Vulnerable populations in Delaware, including children, older people, and those with asthma, heart disease, and lung disease, are advised to avoid outdoor activities.

2 years ago

Listen 1:13
Abbie Harper
NPR
Health Care
Technology

National Eating Disorders Association phases out human helpline, pivots to chatbot

The non-profit will use a chatbot called Tessa that was designed by eating disorder experts, with funding from NEDA.

2 years ago

This is aerial photo shows plastic bottles, wooden planks, rusty barrels and other garbage clogging the Drina river near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad, Bosnia, on Jan. 5, 2021. . A new study says Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for well-being of people living on it. The study, published Wednesday, May 31, 2023, for the first time it includes measures of “justice,” which is mostly about preventing harm for groups of people. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)
Environment
Preservation

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says

A new study says Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone."

2 years ago

Workers near the top of the 526 ft. Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center spruce up the NASA logo standing on scaffolds in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, May 20, 2020. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket scheduled for May 27 will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on its first test flight with astronauts on-board to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Government Accountability
Space

NASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects

NASA is holding its first public meeting on UFOs a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings.

2 years ago

ChatGPT screen
NPR
Public Safety
Technology

Leading experts warn of a risk of extinction from AI

Experts warn that Artificial intelligence models could soon be smarter and more powerful than us and we need to impose limits to ensure they don't take control over humans.

2 years ago

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