Environment

A Coastal Flood Advisory will go into effect for the entire New Jersey coastline between 7 a.m. Sunday and 1 a.m. Monday, according to a National Weather Service bulletin.

New Jersey is providing nonprofit groups, local governments, and state colleges and universities $10 million in grants to help improve water quality in the Barnegat Bay.

Researchers are discovering that plastic doesn’t just float on the sea's surface. Mass amounts rain all the way down to the seafloor, filling the guts of deep-sea organisms.

Seaweed farming is still a promising idea that benefits the environment, but doing it at scale requires more work.

The $4.5 million needed to dredge shallow areas around Boathouse Row and the national racecourse means silt threatening the city’s regattas will be removed.

A Danish offshore wind company is eyeing the N.J. coal plant as a site to connect offshore wind turbines to the electric grid.

As of Monday, Philly has stopped the controversial practice of sending half its recyclables to an incinerator.

Nuclear power plants across the U.S. are running out of room to store spent fuel. Plans for a permanent disposal site are stalled, so private companies are pitching solutions.

Living a sustainable lifestyle doesn’t have to be expensive to benefit the planet. Did you know that Philly has five programs to make environmental action accessible to you?

Pollution controls were off-line for over three months following a Christmas Eve fire.

Pennsylvania has become the 24th state to join the U.S. Climate Alliance.

State and county documents show the company paid $400,000 each for the properties in Chester County.

The pending bill cites balloons as a danger to wildlife and marine animals who mistake them as food or become entangled in the string. 

Monday is the final day of the City Nature Challenge. Philly is competing with 100 other world cities to find and record the greatest number of living things.

State legislatures have introduced at least 329 climate change bills this year that address greenhouse gas emissions.