Environment

Collaborative program aims to lower childhood obesity rates, stress and more with time outdoors.

A Lancaster County judge on Monday dismissed trespassing charges against seven protesters who blocked construction of the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline.

The father of modern landscape design wrote the book that set the 1970s environmental movement on course.

As climate change makes tropical storm systems stronger and more frequent, state emergency management leaders are urging people to step up their readiness.

This week: an update on Philadelphia's pools and parks, a shortage of child abuse investigators in Delaware, and the risk of stormwater surges in the region.

The move to solar was important because after Maria it took months before power was restored to the area.

Ten years ago, the fracking industry was already booming in Pa., but people in Ohio were just starting to hear about it.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported the magnitude was 7.1. It's the biggest earthquake in Southern California in 20 years and follows a 6.4 magnitude earthquake Thursday.

New climate change study says New Jersey will need billions to pay for enough sea walls.

The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more.

According to an April article published by Penn State researcher Jeffrey Graybill, the plant has been aggressively spreading across the state.

Pennsylvania approved more than 300 permits to farm industrial hemp this growing season after Congress loosened restrictions on the crop last year.

In 2018, the building generated 75% more energy than it consumed–thanks to more than 500 solar panels on the roof, a ground-mounted solar array, and 20 geothermal wells.

Last year was one of the worst on record for West Nile in Pennsylvania. The number of cases jumped to 130, from 20 in 2017, and eight people died.

Rising sea levels threaten to inundate Jersey Shore communities. Stockton University sees an opportunity as towns build their defenses.