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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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A backhoe clears land for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County in early 2017. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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Environmental groups seek injunction to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction

Several environmental groups have asked the Commonwealth Court for an injunction to halt Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Mariner East 2 pipeline construction.

9 years ago

The FDA is expected to issue new guidelines next month to encourage drugmakers to develop new medications for treating opioid addiction.(Bigstock)
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As FDA encourages new medications for opioid addiction, roadblocks to treatment remain

The FDA is expected to issue new guidelines next month to encourage drugmakers to develop new medications for treating opioid addiction.

9 years ago

The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. (Tadhgh Rainey)
NPR
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Asian ticks (mysteriously) turned up on a New Jersey sheep

Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly a thousand more from the one-acre paddock.

9 years ago

New Jersey Sen. Loretta Weinberg has introduced a measure calling for employers to provide paid sick days to their workers. AP file photo)
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Severity of flu season illustrates need for paid sick days in N.J., advocates say

The legislation under consideration would require employers with fewer than 10 workers to offer five paid sick days. Larger employers would have to provide nine paid days.

9 years ago

People 6 months and older should get vaccinated against the flu, says this government poster on display  in a health center in Decatur, Ga
Health

Flu ‘very much active’ in Delaware, records reach 14-year high

Over the past week, 1,521 more Delawareans were diagnosed with the flu, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 5,758. There also were five flu-related deaths.

9 years ago

This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. (Jack Fischer/NASA via AP)
Radio Times
Science

Exit Earth

Guests: Michio Kaku Physicist and futurist MICHIO KAKU theorizes ...

Air Date: February 26, 2018

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This image was taken with Opportunity's navigation camera of a large dune on the way to Victoria
Skytalk
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Rover Still Rovin’

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned images that clearly show thick layers of water ice just beneath the surface and ext ...

Air Date: February 26, 2018

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(Hope Loves Company)
Health

New Jersey camp for family of ALS patients expands to five states

Many children and grandchildren of those with ALS become caregivers, and watching a loved one’s health deteriorate can be stressful and isolating.

9 years ago

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Hibernating toads are making their annual leap to breeding grounds — a bit ahead of schedule (WHYY, file)
Science

Early spring peepers might be trouble for rest of food chain

Recent unseasonably warm weather has lured some frogs out of hibernation early. Herpetologists worry what that might mean for them — and other animals.

9 years ago

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Ashley Copeland (right) talks to her mom Sue Iverson in the Swedish Medical Center emergency department, near Denver. Copeland got a nerve-blocking anesthetic instead of opioids to ease her severe headache. At discharge she was advised to use over-the-counter painkillers, if necessary.
(John Daley/CPR News)
NPR
Health

These 10 ERs sharply reduced opioid use and still eased pain

The 10 hospitals that took part in the collaboration were scattered all over Colorado.

9 years ago

Susquehanna Township EMS Captain Dan Tempel collects information from a man who he just revived from a drug overdose. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
WITF
Health

Audio postcard: First responders save man who has overdosed on heroin

As a note to listeners, some of the sounds contained in this story may be disturbing.

9 years ago

A sign protesting the proposed PennEast Pipeline route in Carbon County, Pa. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

FERC order effectively denies appeals of PennEast approval, critics say

Federal regulators have effectively denied a request to reconsider their approval of the planned PennEast Pipeline, the agency’s critics say.

9 years ago

This photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a red knot in Mispillion Harbor, Delaware.  (Gregory Breese, USFWS/AP Photo)
Science

Delaware Bay’s crabs contributing to dip in already threatened red knot population

The red knots stop for nourishment along the Delaware Bay on their annual journey from Chile to the Arctic.

9 years ago

(Courtesy of CM Baker)
Health

Mobile cancer screening funding in jeopardy

Hundreds of Delaware women who receive services on the state-funded Mobile Health Screening Van may have to seek other providers if the state decides to cut its funding.

9 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro
Speak Easy
Health

Setting the record straight on ‘safe-injection’ sites

Philadelphia is in the midst of a debate about "safe-injection sites." Those opposed found voice in state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, but his statements are ill-informed.

9 years ago

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