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In addition to large plastic trash, researchers estimate that more than 21 million metric tons of tiny plastic debris are floating below the Atlantic Ocean's surface. (Michael O'Neill/Science Source)
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Environment

The Atlantic is awash with far more plastic than previously thought, study finds

A study suggests there is more plastic in the Atlantic Ocean than scientists estimated earlier, especially tiny plastic pieces that can end up inside fish and other animals.

5 years ago

Pseudoboletus parasiticus in Wolf's Hollow near Atglen, Pa. (Courtesy of John Dawson)
Environment
Outdoors

Edible mushrooms start sprouting across Delaware Valley after rainy summer months

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with mushroom expert Linda Brynan Sears about the different mushrooms that have begun sprouting around our area.

5 years ago

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A Cambria County wind farm
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Report: Clean energy jobs among fastest-growing in Pa. from 2017-2019

Coal and natural gas industries saw losses over the past few years.

5 years ago

Caribou from the Porcupine caribou herd are seen migrating onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The Interior Department hopes to conduct a lease sale for oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain by the end of 2020. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/AP)
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Energy
Environment

Trump administration moves closer to allowing oil drilling in Arctic Refuge

The move applies to some 1.57 million acres of the refuge's coastal plain.

5 years ago

A personality test showing options for extrovert and introvert
The Pulse
Biology

The Puzzle of Personality

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

Air Date: August 14, 2020

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Jordan Emerson was a member of the Whiz Kidz race team in Scarborough, Maine.  (Courtesy of Jordan Emerson)
The Pulse
Biology

How a brain injury turned a teenager from shy to sociable 

A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon. 

5 years ago

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Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves. (Sonulkaster / Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Behavioral Health

Who is the real me, exactly?

Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves.

5 years ago

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GlaxoSmithKline headquarters at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Business
Kids
Race & Ethnicity
Technology

Pharma company pledges $10 million to Philly students to help diversify STEM careers

Black workers make up 12% of the United States’ workforce, but hold 5% of science and engineering jobs, according to the National Science Foundation.

5 years ago

A Philadelphia police officer rushes to help a stranded motorist during Tropical Storm Isaias
Environment
Sustainability

A new advisory panel on climate change starts work at DRBC

On the heels of a storm that destroyed property, displaced hundreds of people and flooded the region’s waterways, the timing is particularly relevant.

5 years ago

Bentonite clay spills into Marsh Creek Lake. (Courtesy of Chris DiGiuilo)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Sustainability

Mariner East pipeline construction spills up to 10,000 gallons of drilling mud into Chesco stream and lake

The spill is one of more than 100 across the length of the pipeline.

5 years ago

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Down the Shore
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Outdoors
Space

Prolific, colorful Perseid meteor shower to dazzle stargazers during peak

The best viewing is from a dark location, like a secluded beach, between a few hours before midnight and dawn, according to earthsky.org.

5 years ago

Atlantic Ocean in N.J.
Down the Shore
Biology
New Jersey
Public Health

‘Sea lice’ reported at N.J. beaches is actually jellyfish larvae, biologist says

Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, said the larvae were likely pushed to New Jersey from Florida by Tropical Storm Isaias.

5 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Three Mile Island operator, surrounding communities to scale back emergency planning for shuttered site

The company that owns Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 reactor will scale back its emergency planning starting in January.

5 years ago

Penn State doctoral student Stephanie Herbstritt shows the hairy ligule in switchgrass that's growing on a Penn State research plot in Centre County. (Anne Danahy/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Some faculty’s environmental science research on hold, while others find work around, in face of COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit Pa. in March, universities shut down and suspended some lab work and field research. For environmental scientists, it's been a big change.

5 years ago

Farmers work during a harvest in Jutland, Denmark. People keep worrying about food shortages. Some economists say the fears actually create their own problems. (Nick Brundle Photography/Getty Images)
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Food & Drink
National

Food is growing more plentiful, so why do people keep warning of shortages?

Some researchers say the main reason that millions of people are malnourished globally is that people lack the money to buy food, or because of war and political oppression.

5 years ago

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