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After a wet spring, Pa. DEP monitors for West Nile virus. Will this summer be bad?
Last year was one of the worst on record for West Nile in Pennsylvania. The number of cases jumped to 130, from 20 in 2017, and eight people died.
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Facing a Jersey Shore underwater, Stockton proposes coastal resiliency institute in Atlantic City
Rising sea levels threaten to inundate Jersey Shore communities. Stockton University sees an opportunity as towns build their defenses.
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Are we doing severe weather alerts wrong?
It's not all in your head — If you live in the Philadelphia region, you have actually been getting more severe weather alerts on your phone lately. Why?
Air Date: July 2, 2019
Listen 13:01If you want to own a plot of lunar land, there are websites that will sell you one. Are those websites for real?
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Listen 04:24New study finds elevated risk of pollution exposure in some of Philly’s hottest neighborhoods
Some of Philadelphia’s most desirable neighborhoods come with a risk of increased exposure to auto-related air pollution.
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Philadelphia refinery fire investigators to examine potential for release of dangerous chemical
A hydrogen fluoride release could have had deadly consequences.
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Toxic jellyfish now found further south in Barnegat Bay
An expert says toxic clinging jellyfish have been found for the first time south of a popular Barnegat Bay boating area off southern Island Beach State Park.
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Three Pa. med schools tapped for medical marijuana research programs
The Health Department says it plans to approve five more partnerships between marijuana growers and research centers this summer.
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Conservation groups led by New Jersey Audubon are renewing their efforts to persuade the other bay states — Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — to ban the crab harvest.
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What dropping 17,000 wallets around the globe can teach us about honesty
The researchers assumed that putting money in the wallet would make people less likely to return it, because the payoff would be bigger. But researchers saw the opposite.
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The Science of Everyday Objects
Air Date: June 21, 2019
Listen 48:07Climate focus intensifies in Harrisburg, as budget negotiations and citizen-led petition advance
Parallel efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania — a citizen climate petition and a provision in the state budget — are topics of discussion in Harrisburg.
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Replacing plastic: Can bacteria help us break the habit?
Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them.
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Oh dear: Photos show what humans have done to the planet
Three Canadian artists traveled to 22 countries to research and document "places of obvious, physical human incursions on the landscape."
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