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Trees
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Biology
Environment

The Future of Trees

Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th ...

Air Date: December 20, 2019

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Goats from the Philly Goat Project eat the leaves from invasive vines to clear the way for landscapers to identify and cut down English ivy to save hundred year old trees.  (Jessica Kourkounis/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment
Philadelphia

Feed a goat, save a tree — or a whole yard’s worth

When English ivy vines threatened her family’s "private park," a homeowner enlisted some hungry, four-legged assistants.

7 years ago

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Nurdles on Ferrycraigs Beach on the Firth of Forth, Scotland. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
International
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Scotland is turning Pennsylvania shale gas into plastic. But what happens to it next?

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans.

7 years ago

Workers harvest Fraser fir Christmas trees on Joey Clawson’s farm, outside Boone, NC. (Irina Zhorov/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Outdoors

On the tree farm, a Christmas favorite thrives. In the wild, it struggles

The balsam wooly adelgid has devastated Appalachia’s native Fraser firs. On a North Carolina farm, their domesticated cousins grow with TLC.

7 years ago

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SpaceX's Starlink mission
Skytalk
Space

Let There Be Light (but not too much)

SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the ...

Air Date: December 14, 2019

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Jodi Cutaiar never liked the taste of the well water at her Sellersville home. Now she knows it is contaminated with PFAS, a chemical used in fire retardant foam. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

One in three tests show Pa. water contamination, state says it’s not ‘widespread’

Amid federal inaction, there's no consensus on how much of the PFAS class of chemicals is too much.

7 years ago

Georgia Tech professor Kim Cobb is shown at her home on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019 in Atlanta. Cobb is one of a number of scientists  deciding to do their part in cutting back on global warming by decreasing flying, composting leaves and waste, as well as using solar panels among other things. (John Amis/AP Photo)
Environment

Climate scientists try to cut their own carbon footprints

Some climate scientists are limiting their airline flights so they don’t worsen the global warming they study.

7 years ago

Biologists pile recently dead mussel shells on the edge of the Clinch River after documenting the species' number and type. The smell can get
NPR

Nature’s ‘Brita filter’ is dying and nobody knows why

A mysterious die-off of freshwater mussels has scientists scrambling to find a cause. Freshwater mussels clean water and provide habitat to countless other species.

7 years ago

Detailed view on the newly installed system to filter out PFAS Forever Chemicals at Well #2 of the Horsham Water and Sewer Authority facility in Horsham, Pa., on August 22, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. testing finds elevated levels of PFAS in some drinking water

Pennsylvania regulators found varying levels of toxic heat- and water-resistant chemicals in drinking water supplies across the state.

7 years ago

As tuitions climb faster than income levels, many dental school grads feel distressed about paying off huge amounts of student debt. (Courtesy of Lori Wilson)
The Pulse
Business
Health Care
Medicine

Dental school grads find it hard to beat back student debt

Dentistry can be a lucrative career, but some say rising tuition costs mean massive loans to pay off in a changing market for care.

7 years ago

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Aspen Dental dentist Dr. David Roberts, left talks to a patient inside the MouthMobile which travels the country  giving free dental care to veterans, in Kennewick, Wash. on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019.
The Pulse

The Hidden Lives of Dentists

Being a dentist can be a lonely job. Your patients don’t want to be there — and even if they did, it’s not like they can talk with ...

Air Date: December 6, 2019

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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has formed a collaboration agreement with Bayer.
(Philadelphia Business Journal)
Business
Health Care
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Business Journal

CHOP, Bayer team up on $5M hemophilia research effort

Bayer has entered into a three-year collaboration agreement with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to develop new hemophilia treatments.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan, File)
Radio Times
Economy
Environment
International
Politics

Climate change: where science and politics collide

As world leaders and scientists gather at the UN climate summit in Madrid, we discuss the state of the climate crisis and clash between science and politics.

Air Date: December 3, 2019 10:00 am

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Peter Melnik, a fourth-generation dairy farmer, owns Bar-Way Farm, Inc. in Deerfield, Mass. He has an anaerobic digester on his farm that converts food waste into renewable energy. (Allison Aubrey/NPR)
NPR
Energy
National
Technology

Chew on this: Farmers are using food waste to make electricity

As the season of big holiday meals kicks off, it's as good a time as any to reflect on just how much food goes to waste.

7 years ago

This Nov. 21, 2019 photo shows a dead Chinese pond mussel that was found in a network of ponds in Franklin Township, N.J. Federal wildlife officials and a New Jersey conservation group believe they have successfully wiped out the first known infestation of the Chinese mussels in North America. The mussels have taken over waterways in dozens of European and Asian countries by crowding out native species. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Shell shock: Giant invasive mussels eradicated from U.S. ponds

The mussels, in larvae form, hitched a ride to this country inside the gills of Asian carp that were imported and quickly began reproducing.

7 years ago

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