Environment

At Omni Recycling, a materials recovery facility in Pitman, N.J., one can see firsthand the mess that plastic has become for recyclers.

People who live near the South Philly refinery said they want it shut and gone forever, while laid-off refinery workers are hoping someone will buy it.

China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem.

The state moratorium calls for more study of regulating plastics. But many say the benefits are clear, and that it’s also a matter of local autonomy.

Pennsylvania is shutting down Three Mile Island for good next month. With the nuclear plant gone, how will the state produce carbon-free energy?

This is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

Union leaders had hoped to persuade Philadelphia Energy Solutions to keep some workers on past Aug. 25. “It’s a mismanaged mess,” said a USW official.

If you want to know what climate change will look like, you need to know what Earth's climate looked like in the past

The Jersey Shore woke up to a rain, wind, and big waves from the offshore Hurricane Bob 28 years ago today.

This week: Ramping up for the 2020 census, N.J. particularly hard hit by the effects of climate change, teaching animation to inmates.

Some South Jersey blueberry farms were recently cited for illegally housing migrant workers in sheds without proper septic systems — for years.

From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind's exploitation of the planet's fauna and flora is putting some of them at risk of extinction.

If we want to work towards creating and sustaining an effective canopy, we need a cultural shift to prioritize the life-long maintenance of trees over simply planting them.

New research from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh shows thousands of lives could be saved each year if air quality standards were tightened.

About half of the original 30,000 gallons of highly toxic hydrofluoric acid remains. “A good week,” Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel says.