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Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev spent three months in the Siberian Arctic, filming marine biologist, Maxim Chakilev and his research on how climate change is affecting the pacific walrus population. Their film, Haulout, is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for 2023. (The New Yorker Studios)
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Animals
Environment

Surrounded by Walruses: The Making of ‘Haulout’

In 2018, brother and sister filmmaking duo Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev traveled to a beach in the Siberian Arctic — an area in ...

Air Date: March 8, 2023

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Environmentalists from Ducks Unlimited and other organizations are using $500,000 in funding to restore saltwater marshes in Delaware and New Jersey. Saltwater marshes protect communities from flooding, and provide habitat for birds and fish. (Courtesy of Ducks Unlimited)
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Delaware
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Novel method will help restore Delaware and New Jersey salt marshes

Climate change threatens to “drown” Delaware’s salt marshes. New funds from the National Wildlife Foundation will use a novel method to restore them.

3 years ago

A solar array at the Nittany 1 Solar Farm
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Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania ranks near bottom of states in renewable energy generation

Pennsylvania ranks near the bottom of states when it comes to generating renewable energy.

3 years ago

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What Makes a Pest a Pest?

Pests: We know them when we see them. The mice that lurk in our kitchens, the squirrels that steal our tomatoes, the mosquitoes that bite ...

Air Date: March 3, 2023

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Science writer Bethany Brookshire has an enemy who lives in her backyard: a gray squirrel she named “Kevin.” In her new book, she says we can rethink our relationships with animals we call “pests” like squirrels, rats, pigeons, pythons and more. (Gael Dupont-langevin)
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Animals
Environment

How we decide which animals are pests, and why 

Even for the most devoted animal lover among us, there are animals that we hate and try to avoid, or kill: rats, mice, pigeons, invasive snakes. We call these animals pests.

3 years ago

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Security guards stand in front of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 11, 2020, after the market had been closed following an outbreak of COVID-19 there. Two studies document samples of SARS-CoV-2 from stalls where live animals were sold. (Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)
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What does the science say about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?

Since the COVID pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been a topic of much scientific — and political — debate.

3 years ago

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Medicine

From med spas to DIY: Botox is everywhere but not without risks

For a product whose toxic origins trace back to a biological weapons lab in Maryland, Botox has helped normalize cosmetic injectables

3 years ago

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A close-up of a dead whale washed ashore on the beach.
Animals
Energy
New Jersey
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30 N.J. mayors call for moratorium on offshore wind activity and further investigation into whale deaths

No current evidence suggests that offshore wind farms or surveys have caused the recent spike in whale deaths. Necropsies have found the mammals were killed by vessel strikes.

3 years ago

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Graduate student Rike Benz (left) and associate professor Carlos Moffat (right) prepare to deploy an ocean glider off the coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula. (Courtesy of Nicole Waite)
Delaware
Environment
Outdoors

University of Delaware researcher studying how warming temperatures in Antarctica could impact our region

Oceanographer Carlos Moffat and his graduate students have just spent 45 days at sea — to better understand ocean warming and melting ice in Antarctica.

3 years ago

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FILE - This scanning electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows rod-shaped Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. U.S. health officials are advising people to stop using the over-the-counter eye drops, EzriCare Artificial Tears, that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday night, Feb. 1, 2023, sent a health alert to physicians, saying the outbreak includes at least 55 people in 12 states. One died. (Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP)
Medicine
Public Health

Eye drops recalled after U.S. drug-resistant bacteria outbreak

U.S. health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections.

3 years ago

A dead whale on a beach
Animals
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

Researchers are looking for answers amid spike in beached whales at the Jersey Shore

Several whales have been found washed ashore on the East Coast. Researchers think vessels are to blame.

3 years ago

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A snowcapped landscape is reflected in a body of water.
Animals
Delaware
Environment
Higher Education
K-12
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Delaware students Zoom to Antarctica to learn about penguin research

Students at Caesar Rodney High School got a taste of a career in research, amongst penguins and seals on the West Antarctic Peninsula.

3 years ago

Piping Plover and Chicks
Animals
Delaware
Environment
Outdoors
Sustainability

Delaware’s nesting piping plovers show resilience in the face of overall declines along the East Coast

Nesting piping plovers show resilience in Delaware while the shorebirds struggle to maintain their population along the southern Atlantic Coast. Researchers want to know why.

3 years ago

The Pulse

Communicating with Animals

Humans have long been fascinated by the idea of communicating with other species — not just teaching animals to mimic human words, but ...

Air Date: January 20, 2023

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Billi has learned more than 60 words in the two-and-a-half years since owner Kendra Baker started training her using recordable buttons, otherwise known as augmentative interspecies communication, or AIC. She's part of a research project looking into whether animals are capable of using language.
Animals

‘Talking’ pets: The citizen science project that could reshape what we know about animals and language

What scientists are learning about the ‘talking’ cats and dogs of Insta

3 years ago

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