Science

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

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

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

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

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

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.