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Health & Science

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
Science

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.

8 years ago

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(Courtesy of Adam Ford)
The Pulse
Science

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.

8 years ago

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Tommy Fisk cuts down a black oak outside Eminence, Missouri on Dec. 14, 2017
The Pulse
Science

Did logging help reclaim Missouri wilderness?

Since the 1950s, a timber company has used conservation-driven logging to balance productive use and wild forests.

8 years ago

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Singer/songwriter Sam Baker (right) sits with 16-year-old Andrew Hart, who suffers from severe depression, and has struggled with homelessness and abuse. He taught himself to play the guitar.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Musician visits Pa. school to help kids find their way beyond trauma

Valley Day School in Bucks County takes a trauma-informed approach to its students who have behavioral or emotional issues. Singer/songwriter Sam Baker can relate.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Tulante.
Health

Philly targets big pharma in suit over opioid epidemic

'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.

8 years ago

A mailing from insurer Aetna breached the privacy of thousands of HIV positive members.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Aetna agrees to pay $17M in massive HIV privacy breach

Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.

8 years ago

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In this 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital. (Edward A.
Science

Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu

There's no way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another pandemic or, given modern medical tools, how bad it might be.

8 years ago

Luke Dunn and Nick Hale spend their winter days driving around Kensington trying to get homeless people into shelter.
Health

Homeless shelter planned for opioid-afflicted Kensington won’t be ready this winter

The city promised in December it would open 30 more beds in the neighborhood by January, but city officials now estimate the space won’t open until late spring.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

DEP fines natural gas company $1.7M for drilling violations

8 years ago

Trees cut on a Susquehanna County property in March 2016 to make way for the proposed Constitution Pipeline. The company says it will fight a FERC order upholding New York State's denial of a permit for the project.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

After new setback, Constitution Pipeline says it will fight FERC order

8 years ago

Jerome Shabazz runs the Overbook Environmental Education Center in Philadelphia. Shabazz says he has used federal dollars from the EPA's environmental justice office to raise awareness about water quality and toxins like lead.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

MLK’s environmental justice legacy threatened by Trump administration cuts

8 years ago

This interior view of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module shows Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, during the lunar landing mission. This picture was taken by Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, prior to the moon landing.
Skytalk
Science

Happy Birthday, Buzz!

Of the remaining cohort of Earthlings privileged to set foot on the moon, let’s extend 88th birthday greetings this week to Buzz Al ...

Air Date: January 15, 2018

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Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly after childbirth.
NPR
Health

Making the case that discrimination is bad for your health

Arline Geronimus coined the term 'weathering' to describe how health problems of marginalized people can be caused by stresses of their daily life.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's wind industry boomed through 2012, but development of new wind farms has slowed in the years since. (vaxomatic via Flickr)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

A surge, then a fade for Pennsylvania’s wind industry

More than two dozen wind farms popped up across the state leading up to 2012, but only one in the years since.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Judge fines environmental attorneys $52,000 for ‘frivolous’ injection well suit

The case is centered on a 2014 ban and a subsequent municipal charter adopted by Grant Township that banned fracking wastewater injection projects.

8 years ago

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