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Tropical Storm Arthur
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of 2020, forms in the Atlantic

Arthur is expected to remain a tropical storm, potentially making landfall or brushing the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Monday.

5 years ago

Crested Butte Mountains
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Technology

Science Interrupted: The Impact of Coronavirus

Around the globe, COVID-19 has frozen economies, closed schools, stores, and restaurants, and even canceled the Olympics. Millions of peo ...

Air Date: May 15, 2020

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For the past 17 years, Dan Blumstein and his research team have skied into the Crested Butte Mountains of Colorado to conduct their annual scientific observations on yellow-bellied marmots. In 2020, the coronavirus is threatening to shut down this research and other types of field research throughout the world. (Image courtesy of Gina Johnson)
The Pulse
Biology
Environment

How the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted field research

Lack of data gathering could have a major impact on ecological studies and the young scientists who do them.

5 years ago

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Luke DeGroote holds a Northern Flicker in 2017. Bird banding is currently on hold during the shutdown. (Powerdermill Nature Reserve)
Environment
Pennsylvania
Sustainability
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Coronavirus delays conservation efforts in Pennsylvania

“It’s important to conserve the environment, and collect data that would help us do that. But at the same time, it’s more important right now to stop the spread of disease."

5 years ago

Scientists from Carnegie Mellon use mobile labs to detect methane leaks from the natural gas industry. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Study finds methane leaks in PA are much higher than state reports

Estimates don't capture leaks from 'abnormal' conditions, the Environmental Defense Fund says.

5 years ago

Piping plover with chicks in Cape May, N.J. (Courtesy of Kevin Karlson)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

2019 was a record year for piping plovers along the Atlantic coast

The endangered piping plovers saw record-setting numbers along the Atlantic coast in 2019, federal officials say.

5 years ago

A ground-mounted solar panel at Millersville University tracks the sun’s path across the sky. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

COVID-19 has slowed green energy industry, but experts say it should bounce back

“We’re all doing the best we can in the new normal here,” said Kevin Gombotz, vice president of Envinity, a green design and construction company.

5 years ago

Robert H. Frank's new book Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work examines the role of social influence in enacting larger social change.
Radio Times
Books
Environment
Sustainability

Peer pressure and social change

Do our individual actions matter? While policy change is critical, our individual actions carry the social influence necessary to make these changes possible.

Air Date: May 12, 2020

Listen 48:57
This image made by a scanning electron micrograph shows SARS-COV-2 virus particles (colorized pink) from a patient sample. There are various studies looking at changes to the virus genome — and the possible impact on how the virus affects humans. (NIAID/NIH)
NPR
Biology
Public Health

The coronavirus is mutating. That’s normal. Does that mean it’s more dangerous?

There are studies looking at changes to the virus genome — and the possible impact on how the virus affects humans. Here's what we know (and don't yet know) about mutations.

5 years ago

After years of debate, British biotech company Oxitec has received federal approval to test its genetically modified mosquitoes — which are designed to reduce the local Aedes aegypti population — in the Florida Keys. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
The Pulse
Environment
Outdoors
Public Health

Will genetic modification help control mosquitoes — or just create different ones?

The EPA has approved testing the new insects in the Florida Keys, stinging some who fought the trial for years.

5 years ago

Listen 13:37
Clive Wynne, author of
Radio Times

Do dogs really love us?

We discuss dogs ability to form emotional bonds with humans and learn about research training dogs to sniff out the coronavirus.

Air Date: May 8, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
Mosquito
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Public Health

Buzz Off, Mosquitoes

Most of us dread mosquito season — but on some level, you’ve got to admire these pesky bloodsuckers. Over the millennia, they’v ...

Air Date: May 8, 2020

Listen 49:05
Chesapeake Bay pollution
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Report finds poultry farming sends more pollution to Chesapeake Bay than previously thought

The analysis estimates that about 1 million more pounds of nitrogen pollution enter the Chesapeake Bay annually from poultry farming than cleanup programs estimate.

5 years ago

A wall of plastic trash at Garten Services in Salem, Ore., is headed to the landfill. The vast majority of plastic can't be or won't be recycled. (Laura Sullivan / NPR)
Environment
Sustainability

‘Horrible hybrids’: The plastic products that give recyclers nightmares — and what you can use instead

Plastic products designed to be used for a few minutes can take decades or longer to decompose.

5 years ago

A closeup of a spotted lanternfly
Environment
Philadelphia

They’re back and hungry! First spotted lanternfly nymph found in Philadelphia

Pa. confirmed this spring’s first hatch of a spotted lanternfly nymph in West Philly on Tuesday, prompting calls for residents to take action.

5 years ago

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