Environment

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.

Philadelphia’s future LNG plant gets grant for solar panels. Environmentalists say that doesn’t make the fossil fuel project right.

The result? The gulls, on average, took 21 seconds longer to approach the food when being stared at, according to the study.

Croda Inc. released more 2,600 pounds of highly flammable ethylene oxide in November. Officials want to resume production in two months but state says more must be done.

The regulator demanded information on how the local population would be affected by any pipeline failure.

The first 80 workers have been let go at the shuttered Philadelphia Energy Solutions complex, more than a week earlier than expected.

Signed into law Wednesday are programs designed to offer incentives to home and business owners and help the city advance its climate goals.

It wasn’t until a few years ago that researchers defined what really counts, to animals, as play.

Researchers are now calling for the world to cut back on its meat consumption. But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the planet.