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Sarah Bouboulis, Habitat Specialist at the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary in Wilmington, Delaware, carefully walks down a small mountain of oyster shells ready to be recycled.  (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Delaware
Environment
Sustainability

Oyster shell recycling moves to the masses in Delaware

Forget farm-to-table, a new pilot program is taking oyster shells from table to bay. Recycled shells will become living shorelines and new oyster habitat.

6 years ago

Listen 2:53
Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii. (Audrey McAvoy/AP Photo)
National
Public Health
Broke in Philly

What if you want a COVID-19 test but don’t have health insurance?

Now that test kits are more available, there has been some concern fear of cost might deter underinsured or uninsured Americans from getting tested.

6 years ago

A closeup of a spotted lanternfly
Outdoors
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania adds 12 counties to lanternfly quarantine zone

The invasive spotted lanternfly is continuing its westward march across Pa., with state agriculture officials nearly doubling the number of counties in a quarantine zone.

6 years ago

Laurie Cleveland of the Sourland Conservancy scoops up a wood frog to help it across the road, while volunteers with headlamps and flashlights patrol try to save the amphibians from being crushed by passing cars. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Biology
New Jersey

N.J. crossing guards protect amphibians making deadly trek for love

The Sourland Conservancy has operated an amphibian crossing guard program for five years — with a focus on the spotted salamander.

6 years ago

Listen 3:49
Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine. (Commonwealth Media Services)
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Pa. state lab can now test for coronavirus, but its capability is limited

Pa.'s Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine said getting test results from the state-run lab in Exton is reducing the turn-around time significantly.

6 years ago

The Pulse
Behavioral Health
Mental Health

The Anatomy of Sadness

Sadness seemingly comes out of nowhere sometimes: a song, a photo, a movie scene, a memory, and there it is. Your heart seems heavy. Tear ...

Air Date: February 28, 2020

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Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company has said it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State’s denial of a permit for the project. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Sustainability
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Constitution Pipeline project ends as builder cites ‘diminished’ return on investment

A pipeline builder has dropped a controversial project that would have routed fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale into New York.

6 years ago

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Environment
Public Safety
NJ Spotlight

EPA makes long-awaited start to setting health limits for two PFAS chemicals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday took its first, and long-awaited, step toward regulating the presence of two toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water

6 years ago

Part voyeurism, part advice column, part moral philosophy — AITA is a place for debating who's right and who's wrong in everyday conflicts. (bigtunaonline / Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Behavioral Health

What’s fueling the rise of AITA — an online community dedicated to calling out jerks?

How a subreddit dedicated to strangers’ problems taps into our human desire for fairness

6 years ago

Listen 11:37
The Pulse

Deciding What’s Fair

“It’s not fair!” That’s a common refrain anyone with kids is familiar with. From the time they learn to talk, kids begin protesti ...

Air Date: February 21, 2020

Listen 48:56
In this Aug. 30, 2017, photo, Stephanie Pope-Earley, right, sorts through defendant files scored with risk-assessment software for Jimmy Jackson Jr., a municipal court judge, on the first day of the software's use in Cleveland. In a growing number of local and state courts, including Cleveland, judges are now guided by computer algorithms before ruling whether criminal defendants can return to everyday life, or remain locked up awaiting trial. (Dake Kang/AP Photo)
The Pulse
Criminal Justice
Social Justice

Can algorithms help judges make fair decisions?

Is taking away the human factor the key to more just rulings?

6 years ago

Listen 11:45
(Illustrations by Cornelia Li for NPR)
NPR
Environment

How warming winters are affecting everything

Temperatures continue to steadily rise around the globe, but that trend isn't spread evenly across the map or even the yearly calendar.

6 years ago

A couple makes a heart shape with their hands
The Pulse
Sex & Relationships

The Science of Love

What is love? Is it that warm and fuzzy feeling, that crazed obsession, that deep sentiment of trust and good will? It’s all of those t ...

Air Date: February 14, 2020

Listen 49:12
 Manatee file photo. (Image: flickkerphotos via Flickr)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Marine experts investigate manatee death in N.J.

Officials on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused the death of a manatee in southern New Jersey.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of the 2050 Group)
NPR
Race & Ethnicity
Technology

When bias is coded into our technology

Facial recognition systems from large tech companies often incorrectly classify black women as male, including Michelle Obama, Serena Williams and Sojourner Truth.

6 years ago

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