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Radio Times
Environment

Climate change, environmental regulation, and the Chesapeake Bay comeback

Guests: Jennifer Francis, Juliet Eilperin, ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
RNG Energy's Heartland biofuel/anaerobic digester in Colorado, similar to the plant proposed for a PES refinery site. (Photo courtesy of RNG Energy)
PlanPhilly
Economy
Energy
Environment
PlanPhilly

Mixed reviews for a proposed $120M renewable-energy plant at South Philly refinery

Making energy out of trash has great environmental appeal.

7 years ago

The women farmers of the Circuito Agroecológico Aiboniteño work together to build a swale on a guava orchard. (Paige Pfleger/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment

After Maria, farmers build resilience through sustainability

In Puerto Rico, a group of farmers help each other rebuild and prepare for the coming hurricane season.

7 years ago

Listen 7:06
Rosa Elena Mastache Dominguez looks out at the beach through a door that once led to the back of her family home. Hurricane Maria shrunk the beach behind her home, then another storm brought waves that destroyed the structure. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment

Eroding beaches weaken Puerto Rico’s storm defenses

More than half of the island's beaches are losing sand. That's a problem when most of the population lives along the coast.

7 years ago

Listen 7:28
In the days after the hurricane, Mariana Ortiz-Blanes documented the devastation around her family home. She took photos and short videos — then sent them to her daughter in Philadelphia — as Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico. Photo Credit: Mariana Ortiz-Blanes
The Pulse
Environment

Surviving Maria — from 1,500 miles away

As hurricane winds swept across Puerto Rico, journalist Syra Ortiz-Blanes watched from Philadelphia, unsure if her family back home was safe.

7 years ago

Listen 5:53
Workers from the power company, PREPA, work on a downed line in Utuado. Branches from a tree fell on the line, breaking it and causing a transformer to explode. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Energy
Environment

Enemy No. 1 for Puerto Rico’s utility: trees

One of the most complicated pieces of technology — the power grid — is no match for the forest.

7 years ago

Listen 7:28
This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Addiction
Medicine

Major opioid maker to pay for overdose-antidote development

OxyContin maker announced that it's making a $3.4 million grant to help develop a low-cost naloxone nasal spray.

7 years ago

The Milky Way's Galactic Center in the night sky above the Paranal Observatory (the laser creates a guide-star for the telescope). ESO/Y. Beletsky
Skytalk
Space

Galactic Two-Step

Our Milky Way is thought to have originally formed shortly after the birth of the universe, 13.5 billion years ago. Built from the first ...

Air Date: September 3, 2018

Listen 05:13
Radio Times
Biology
Medicine

Aroused: how hormones control us

Guest: Randi Hutter Epstein We blame a lot on our hormones – weight gain, sex drive, sleep loss, mood swings, i ...

Air Date: September 3, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Entomologist Anne Nielsen looks for stink bugs on Rutgers University experimental peach orchard in Bridgeton, N.J. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Asian wasp’s arrival in S. Jersey brings hope to scientists, farmers fighting stink bugs

It looks harmless, but the samurai wasp is a skillful warrior.

7 years ago

Listen 6:14
Skytalk
Space

Listen to “Lune”

NASA Science Visualization Labs’ Ernie Wright has created a beautiful visual compliment to De Bussey’s classic piano composition, ...

Air Date: August 27, 2018

Listen 06:30
Apollo 15 commander Dave Scott takes samples at the boulder on the rim of Hadley Rille during the Apollo 15 mission in this July 1971 NASA handout photo. Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, can be seen in the reflection in Scott's visor The photograph is one of more than 12,000 from NASA's archives recently aggregated on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account.  REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters    THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3EBA90Z4801
PBS NewsHour

Missing tape discovery solves 40-year lunar mystery

7 years ago

The Pulse
K-12
Public Health

How Schools Shape Health

School is a place where kids learn about health — everything from nutrition to avoiding STDs. But increasingly, schools across the coun ...

Air Date: August 24, 2018

Listen 48:51
The exterior of Aqua Pennsylvania offices in Bryn Mawr
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health

PFAS chemicals showing up in Montco water beyond military bases

Aqua has taken two wells offline due to elevated levels of potentially harmful chemicals.

7 years ago

Listen 1:50
A Mariner East 2 pipeline construction site is shown off Valley Road near Media, Pensylvaniaa., on Aug. 22. The site is close to where Sunoco is digging up a section of the pipeline after discovering a coating issue that needed to be fixed. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco replaces section of Mariner East 2 because of flaws in pipeline coating

7 years ago

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