Environment

Thousands of volunteers swept beaches from Bergen County to Cape May County Saturday as part of a New Jersey-based organization’s annual program.

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.

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.

City officials from Philadelphia visited Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit. Here’s what Philly can learn from the city’s design.

Philadelphia took one step closer to banning single-use bags Tuesday but axed a 15-cent fee on thicker plastic and recyclable paper bags.

Volunteers will scour tidal waterways for debris, documenting the quantity and types of garage found.

Federal regulators released a report that revealed just how close the city came to catastrophe after the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion in June.

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."

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.

Some spots at the Jersey Shore will see some frost overnight.

A sprawling solar farm could soon become operational on an Ocean County Superfund site that's roughly the size of Hoboken. 

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.

Like clockwork, the monarch butterfly migration season along the Jersey Shore is heating up.

Jersey Shore residents should be prepared for power outages Thursday as gusty winds continue to whip through the region.

A newly released poll has found that more than two in three New Jersey residents feel that climate change is at a crisis level.