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This view of the north polar region of the Moon was obtained by NASA's Galileo's camera during the spacecraft's flyby of the Earth-Moon system on December 7 and 8, 1992.
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Forecast Calls for Dust

Continue your lunation observations: The first quarter moon is on Wednesday Jan. 24. Here’s what to look for: a. The line th ...

Air Date: January 22, 2018

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 Three Mile Island's Unit 1 reactor is still operational and provides enough power for 800,000 homes. Unit 2 partially melted down in 1979. (Joanne Cassaro/WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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TMI’s future, federal policy in spotlight on Smart Talk program

5 years ago

The Delaware River flows along the Pennsylvania side at the Delaware Water Gap.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Hearings for proposed ban on fracking in the Delaware basin start this week

5 years ago

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U.S. mortality rate not falling as quickly as other countries, partly because of obesity

When it comes to lowering the mortality rate, the U.S. is behind other developed countries like Canada, Norway, the U.K., and Australia.

5 years ago

Doctors in Miami found that a man's tattoo expressing his end-of-life wishes was more confusing than helpful.
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When a tattoo means life or death. Literally.

The tattoo stretched across the man's chest. It said "Do Not Resuscitate." His signature was tattooed at the end.

5 years ago

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Before ‘Roe v. Wade,’ the women of ‘Jane’ provided abortions for the women of Chicago

Ultimately, Roe vs. Wade brought an end to Jane because women then had access to legal abortion providers.

5 years ago

Treated oil and gas wastewater flows into a western Pennsylvania stream. (Avner Vengosh/Duke)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers

Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways.

5 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Settlement: No longwall mining beneath state park stream in Greene County

5 years ago

Protesters blocked pipeline construction equipment on the property of The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns, in Lancaster County in October. On Friday, the nuns asked an appeals court to allow them to make their religious objections to the pipeline in a lower court.  (MARIE CUSICK / STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)
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Nuns want court to hear their religious objections to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

5 years ago

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia
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International medical travelers a boon to Philadelphia

The Philadelphia region boasts more than 20 universities and colleges, as well as five medical schools and schools of nursing and health care administration.

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Local specialists echo national concerns over ending behavioral health registry

Behavioral Health practitioners nationwide have used the registry’s list of hundreds of evidence-based practices as the industry standard for what works.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump at the podium
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Local addiction specialists still waiting for federal support to trickle down

Elana Gordon, a reporter for WHYY’s The Pulse, joined NewsWorks Tonight to weigh in on the local response to federal action.

5 years ago

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Sita and cub, Bandhavgarh National Park, 1996; from A Wild Life (Aperture, 2017)
The Pulse
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Braving the wild for the perfect shot

Wildlife photographer Nick Nichols remembers a close call with a tigress.

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Elk graze at dawn on reclaimed mine land in Kentucky's designated elk zone. The animals were reintroduced to the state in 1997 and have flourished. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
The Pulse
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Returning wild animals to wild-ish places

We reintroduce animals to their native habitat as part of an impulse to re-create “wilderness” — a place untouched by man. The result is more like the feeling of wilderness.

5 years ago

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In Banff, design helps critters safely cross the highway

A hidden world of pathways leads wild animals safely across busy roads, keeping ecosystems connected even as human use fragments and disturbs them.

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