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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Amy Highland holds various strains of trillium
Delaware
Environment
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How the beautiful, ultra-rare trillium plant was brought to Delaware

WHYY ‘Morning Edition’ host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Mt. Cuba’s Amy Highland about tracking down the plant.

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Electrical workers check solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Haian in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
Sustainability

Computer models of civilization offer routes to ending global warming

As the world's top climate scientists released a report full of warnings this week, they kept insisting that the world still has a chance to avoid the worst effects of climate

4 years ago

An entrance to the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Energy
Environment
Philadelphia

A big power pack with a goal of sustainability in Philadelphia

A new battery storage system could make the Philadelphia Navy Yard more attractive to businesses by stabilizing power costs.

4 years ago

Illustration of a young woman standing and looking at her reflection in a mirror
The Pulse
Mental Health

Changing Appearances

We’ve all heard the saying: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” The problem is that’s not how the world works. Just about everyt ...

Air Date: August 13, 2021

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This image of Bennu, taken from a range of 15 miles, shows its unexpectedly rough and rocky surface.
(NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)
NPR
Space

Got plans for Sept. 24, 2182? This big asteroid might, too

A potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu has a 1 in 1,750 chance of hitting Earth between now and the year 2300.

4 years ago

Environment

Group cites PFAS chemical concerns at military sites near Chesapeake Bay

They are known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment.

4 years ago

Trees burn after firefighters conducted a firing operation to slow the spread of the Dixie Fire in Plumas County, Calif, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Dry and windy conditions have led to increased fire activity as firefighters battle the blaze which ignited July 14. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Radio Times
Environment

The new U.N. climate report

The new IPCC report on the climate change says hotter temperatures and extreme weather are now irreversible. What can still be done to fight the climate crisis?

Air Date: August 11, 2021 10:00 am

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Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Climate change: How could NJ be impacted — and how should it respond?

NJ climate expert says ‘the first priority is to prevent additional warming’.

4 years ago

Smoke spreads over Parnitha mountain during a wildfire in the village of Ippokratios Politia
Environment
International

‘Nowhere to run’: UN report says climate change nears limits, humans must cut emissions now

The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which calls climate change clearly human-caused and “unequivocal,” forecasts the 21st century.

4 years ago

Simard's new book is
Radio Times
Environment
Outdoors
Sustainability

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Dr. Suzanne Simard's new book explores how trees have evolved, how they perceive one another, learn and adapt their behaviors and remember the past.

Air Date: August 3, 2021 10:00 am

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Solarize Delco's ribbon cutting. Left to Right:
Peter Puglionesi, Melisa Romano, and Noel Smyth of Solarize Delco; Mike Zabel State Representative; Pastor Tim Johansen with son Leo; Colin Quinn VP Haverford Board of Commissioners; Francine Locke Del. Co. Director of Sustainability; Elaine Schaefer Del. Co. Council, Gerald Hart President Haverford Board of Commissioners. (Courtesy of Delaware County/Adrienne Marofsky)
Energy
Environment
Sustainability

Solarize Delco completes largest project to date as the county takes a fresh approach to sustainability

An installation at Temple Lutheran Church in Haverford is the largest project Solarize Delco has completed. The county is creating a sustainability plan.

4 years ago

More than a mile underwater, the cartoon doppelgangers were found side by side. (NOAA Ocean Exploration)
NPR
Biology
Environment

A research vessel found SpongeBob lookalikes a mile under the ocean’s surface

An ocean expedition exploring more than a mile under the surface of the Atlantic captured a startlingly silly sight this week: a sponge that looked very much like SpongeBob.

4 years ago

A wind turbine farm
NPR
Energy
Environment
Public Health

Cutting carbon pollution quickly would save millions of lives, study finds

Cutting carbon emissions to zero in the next 30 years would save about 74 million lives this century, a new analysis estimates.

4 years ago

Volunteers prepare to douse a forest fire in the republic of Sakha
NPR
Environment
International

Climate scientists meet as floods, fires, droughts, and heat waves batter countries

Scientists are meeting to finalize a landmark climate report. It's meant to guide the next decade of international climate policy, but it's unclear if politicians will act.

4 years ago

Slaughter Beach is a sleepy little southern Delaware town situated along the Delaware Bay in Sussex County. (Charlie O'Neill/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment
Preservation

Often overlooked Delaware Bayshore worth millions to local community, study finds

Just north of Delaware’s popular beach resorts, the Delaware Bayshore’s value economically and environmentally shouldn’t be underestimated, a new report shows.

4 years ago

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