Environment
Giving schools — and students — the tools they need In the fight to save the planet
If you want to get students fired up about climate change, poop is a good place to start.
4 years ago
Philadelphians can opt for renewable natural gas come January
The Energy Co-op is expanding its renewable natural gas service area to Philadelphia. The fuel comes from methane captured at landfills.
4 years ago
New evacuations, power outages near California wildfire
Authorities ordered at least 50,000 residents to evacuate towns near a massive Northern California wildfire Saturday.
4 years ago
Nearly 6,000 volunteers removed trash from N.J. beaches Saturday
Thousands of volunteers swept beaches from Bergen County to Cape May County Saturday as part of a New Jersey-based organization’s annual program.
4 years ago
This week; the move to ban single-use plastic bags in Philly, providing free menstrual products in Pa. schools and facilities, and the Philly origins of candy corn.
Air Date: October 21, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:01Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793: ‘All was not right in our city.’
Join us on an audio walking tour through Philadelphia's Old City to discover how the yellow fever epidemic challenged the city’s health and political infrastructure.
4 years ago
What Philly can learn from Copenhagen’s response to the climate crisis
City officials from Philadelphia visited Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit. Here’s what Philly can learn from the city’s design.
4 years ago
Philly Council committee moves plastic bag ban to final vote, but kills 15-cent fee
Philadelphia took one step closer to banning single-use bags Tuesday but axed a 15-cent fee on thicker plastic and recyclable paper bags.
4 years ago
Thousands to scour N.J. beaches during massive fall trash sweep
Volunteers will scour tidal waterways for debris, documenting the quantity and types of garage found.
4 years ago
How Philly narrowly avoided disaster after refinery explosion
Federal regulators released a report that revealed just how close the city came to catastrophe after the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion in June.
Air Date: October 21, 2019
Listen 14:09Could this tree be an eco-friendly way to wean Indonesian farmers off palm oil?
Agriculture experts see damar as a sort of anti-palm oil: a model to combat deforestation and climate change. These damar trees are part of something called an "agroforest."
4 years ago
Newly tagged great white shark ‘Shaw’ cruises near N.J.
Years after Mary Lee appeared, and following the brief blip of Miss May in July, there’s a new great white shark to track. His name is Shaw.
5 years ago
NWS: Frost advisory for interior Atlantic, Monmouth, Ocean counties
Some spots at the Jersey Shore will see some frost overnight.
5 years ago
Shore town approves N.J.’s largest solar farm on Superfund site
A sprawling solar farm could soon become operational on an Ocean County Superfund site that's roughly the size of Hoboken.
5 years ago
New federal pipeline safety rules draw praise from industry, scorn from critics
New federal rules on pipeline safety are being praised by the oil and gas industry but dismissed by pipeline critics in Pennsylvania as unlikely to make pipelines any safer.
5 years ago