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The U.S. used to ship about 7 million tons of plastic trash to China a year, where much of it was recycled into raw materials. Then came the Chinese crackdown of 2018. (Olivia Sun/NPR)
NPR
Environment
International

Where will your plastic trash go now that China doesn’t want it?

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.

6 years ago

According to a scientific report from the United Nations released on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, climate change, a global major extinction of animals and plants, a human population soaring toward 10 billion, degraded land, polluted air, and plastics, pesticides and hormone-changing chemicals in the water are making the planet an increasing unhealthy place for people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Environment

UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless

The Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.

6 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Nuclear watchdog group, citing potential safety issue at Three Mile Island, wants investigation

Three Mile Island Alert is asking federal regulators to analyze what the group calls a “potentially dangerous and risky condition” at Exelon's Three Mile Island plant.

6 years ago

Tree-clearing in Delaware County to prepare for the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. The builder, Sunoco Logistics, rejected an attempt by a township in neighboring Chester County to block the installation of a valve along the line. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. AG, Delco DA launch criminal investigation into Sunoco, Energy Transfer

Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."

6 years ago

Red Whittaker stands beside an early prototype of RadPiper, a pipe-crawling robot that will help decommission uranium enrichment facilities in Ohio and Kentucky. Whittaker has worked in robotics for four decades at Carnegie Mellon University, and he developed several robots in the 1980s that helped clean up after the Three Mile Island incident. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

After TMI accident in ’79, this Carnegie Mellon team pitched a novel idea for cleanup: Use robots. It was just the beginning.

The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.

6 years ago

An abandoned well in McKean County. (Scott Detrow/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State reaches $7M agreement over 1,400 abandoned oil and gas wells

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned wells in the state.

6 years ago

Rocks and the bay are seen along Bay Point
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says

The interim report foresees a ‘massive’ construction project costing ‘several billion dollars.’

6 years ago

Solar panels fill a field in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. (Panoramic Images/Getty Images)
NPR
Energy
Environment

It’s 2050 and this is how we stopped climate change

Let's imagined that we've ended global warming. Humans are no longer releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.

6 years ago

Dr. Roberto Ieraci prepares to vaccinate a child in Rome on Feb. 23, 2018. (Alessandro Tarantino/AP Photo)
Health Care
The Conversation

Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?

Imagine what might happen if the government itself had embraced an official anti-vaccine policy.

6 years ago

Jonah Reeder prepares a special protein shake that helps him manage a metabolic condition called phenylketonuria. (Julia Ritchey/KUER)
NPR
Health Care

A gulp of genetically modified bacteria might someday treat a range of illnesses

Scientists hope to genetically modify microbes from the human microbiome to treat a range of diseases, including digestive disorders.

6 years ago

The spotted lanternfly is spreading through Southeast Pennsylvania. It was spotted for the first time in the United States in Berks County. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)
Outdoors
Pennsylvania

Pa. looking for new ways to fight spotted lanternfly

Pennsylvania is looking for new ways to fight the invasive spotted lanternfly, nearly five years after it was first discovered in Berks County.

6 years ago

Image: Jess Wood
Skytalk
Space

Some Like it Dry

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most arid places on the planet – averaging less than one inch of rainfall per year! High ...

Air Date: March 8, 2019

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J.J. Tiziou and Jenna Horton sift through memorabilia from the space program. Jacques Tiziou, J.J. ’s father, was a French aerospace journalist and collector. With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 spaceflight and moon landing coming up, J.J. is hoping to preserve and share the “space junk” collection.   (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
History
Space

Collection of NASA Apollo Program memorabilia looking for a new home

French journalist Jacques Tiziou left behind thousands of collectors’ items related to space travel. His son is cataloguing the artifacts, and hopes to share them.

6 years ago

After widespread pressure to repudiate anti-vaccine misinformation on the social media platform, Facebook announced on Thursday that it's taking several steps to tackle the issue. (Richard Drew/AP)
NPR
Health Care
Media
Technology

Facebook vows to quash anti-vaccine misinformation

Facebook announced on Thursday it is taking steps to combat the spread of anti-vaccine information across the social media platform.

6 years ago

This Feb. 28, 2019, photo combination shows trace fossils on paving stones at the Valley Forge National Historical Park in Valley Forge, Pa. A volunteer at the park outside Philadelphia recently discovered dozens of fossilized footprints on flat rocks installed to pave a section of hiking trail. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
History
Outdoors
Pennsylvania

Dinosaur tracks make fresh impression at Valley Forge park

The trace fossils, as they are known, are scattered along a winding trail at Valley Forge National Historical Park, on slabs purchased in 2011 from a nearby commercial quarry.

6 years ago

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