Science

StateImpact Pennsylvania reporter Susan Phillips talks to Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn about COVID-19 waste and the first Earth Day in Philly.

Many of Earth’s most severe extinction crises have coincided with some of its largest volcanic events.

The Department of Environmental Protection released its recent Climate Change Impact Assessment report, which focuses on livestock and watersheds.

Crews are removing mercaptan from the site, the odor used to make natural gas leaks smelly.

Pa. officials encourage fishing and boating close to home, with social distancing and no equipment sharing. The Rivercast predicts the water’s quality.

While millions of Americans hunker down, work from home, and try to stay busy and entertained amid a pandemic, much of our infrastructure hums along as normal, unseen and unap

Those restaurant dumpsters aren’t full of food waste anymore, so opportunistic rodents are going the residential route to fill their bellies.

We discuss what makes the novel coronavirus such an effective and dangerous pathogen in the human body and the race to develop a vaccine against it.

Optimizing our brains has become an obsession of the modern world. We meditate, take supplements, read books on productivity — all in t ...

DEP asks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to slow down the review of a license transfer due to the coronavirus emergency.

We'll talk about what our response to COVID-19 can teach us about tackling climate change and we'll discuss recent environmental rule rollbacks by the Trump administration.

The Franklin Institute has started a nature scavenger hunt for people to engage with nature and outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic.

A study published in the journal Science now says the virus can infect both felines and ferrets. But there are some important caveats to the findings.

Facing the cytokine storm — David Fajgenbaum brings his first-hand experience with cytokine storms to bear on this new coronavirus.

Winters along the Delaware River and its tributaries can lead to picturesque scenes of snow-topped phragmites swaying in the wind.