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Science

Scientists fishing in the Brandywine Creek, at the site of the former West Street dam in Delaware. (Jim Shanahan/Brandywine Shad 2020)
Delaware
Environment
Infrastructure

When the dam’s away, the fish will play: Demolition on Brandywine Creek is restoring shad

In late July, researchers caught juvenile and adult fish just upstream of where the West Street Dam was removed by the City of Wilmington in 2019.

6 years ago

In this 2018 file photo, Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

DEP fines Sunoco again for drilling mud spills, but Mariner East pipeline opponents say penalties aren’t fixing the problem

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

6 years ago

A forest burns as the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire advances on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Bonny Doon, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Environment
National

California fires claim 5 lives, threaten thousands of homes

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

6 years ago

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)
NPR
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.

6 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.

6 years ago

Listen 5:18
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.

6 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)
NPR
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.

6 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

Listen 48:47
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. 

6 years ago

Listen 6:42
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.

6 years ago

Listen 6:36
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.

6 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.

6 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.

6 years ago

Listen 1:40
(NASA)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
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.

6 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.

6 years ago

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