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Fines for 2018-2019 violations come less than two weeks after spill in Chester County.

Three major collections of fires are threatening tens of thousands of homes in the San Francisco Bay Area and central California.

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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