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Environment

Radio Times
Science

Climate change, environmental regulation, and the Chesapeake Bay comeback

Guests: Jennifer Francis, Juliet Eilperin, ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
Grounds along the Tacony Creek  in Northeast Philadelphia will now be open to the public after Natural Lands, a conservation group, invested $500,000 to create a conservation easement that preserves 49 acres of the Friends Hospital property. (Mae Axelrod / Natural Lands)
PlanPhilly
Community

Public now welcome to stroll 50 acres along Tacony Creek in Northeast Philly

50 acres preserved for public on Northeast Philly mental health hospital grounds.

7 years ago

NOAA image.
Down the Shore
Community

Hurricane season peaks

According to NOAA, historical data indicates that Sept. 10 is the day when tropical system activity is most likely to be occurring in the Atlantic basin.

7 years ago

Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the southeastern U.S. coast as a major hurricane on Thursday or Friday, after rapidly intensifying.
(National Weather Service)
NPR
Science

Hurricane Florence spins up into a category 4 storm, aiming at U.S. East Coast

Hurricane Florence is expected to hit the southeastern U.S. as "a large and extremely dangerous hurricane," the National Hurricane Center says.

7 years ago

A sign marking the right of way for the Mariner East pipeline in Lebanon County. (Marie Cusick/ StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Community
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Natural gas pipeline blast in Beaver County prompts evacuation

An Energy Transfer Partners pipeline exploded this morning, destroying one home. No injuries were reported.

7 years ago

The Sahara desert creeps up on a palm field. (Fadel Senna /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

A scientist dreams up a plan to stop the Sahara from expanding

The Sahara desert is expanding, and has been for at least a century. It's a phenomenon that seems impossible to stop.

7 years ago

Florence, expected to approach arrive at the U.S. East Coast late this week, has just been named a hurricane. (Courtesy of the National Hurricane Center)
NPR
Science

Florence, now a hurricane, is one of many threats to the Atlantic and Pacific

A slew of dangerous storms – hurricanes, tropical storms and a typhoon — are currently traveling over both the Atlantic and Pacific.

7 years ago

Nuisance tidal flooding in Seaside Park, N.J. (Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Community

Coastal flood warning in effect for the Shore

The Jersey Shore should prepare for at least a few rounds of tidal inundation through Monday evening.

7 years ago

You Bet Your Garden

September is THE Time for Lawn Care and Repair

In fall, a young man’s fancy turns to…killing greasy grubs! On the latest You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath lays out your or ...

Air Date: September 7, 2018

Listen 43:31
RNG Energy's Heartland biofuel/anaerobic digester in Colorado, similar to the plant proposed for a PES refinery site. (Photo courtesy of RNG Energy)
PlanPhilly
Science
PlanPhilly

Mixed reviews for a proposed $120M renewable-energy plant at South Philly refinery

Making energy out of trash has great environmental appeal.

7 years ago

Image: Irina Zhorov
The Pulse
Health

Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico One Year Later

It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, destroying lives and reducing many communities to rubble. The storm a ...

Air Date: September 7, 2018

Listen 48:34
The women farmers of the Circuito Agroecológico Aiboniteño work together to build a swale on a guava orchard. (Paige Pfleger/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

After Maria, farmers build resilience through sustainability

In Puerto Rico, a group of farmers help each other rebuild and prepare for the coming hurricane season.

7 years ago

Listen 7:06
Rosa Elena Mastache Dominguez looks out at the beach through a door that once led to the back of her family home. Hurricane Maria shrunk the beach behind her home, then another storm brought waves that destroyed the structure. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Eroding beaches weaken Puerto Rico’s storm defenses

More than half of the island's beaches are losing sand. That's a problem when most of the population lives along the coast.

7 years ago

Listen 7:28
In the days after the hurricane, Mariana Ortiz-Blanes documented the devastation around her family home. She took photos and short videos — then sent them to her daughter in Philadelphia — as Hurricane Maria swept across Puerto Rico. Photo Credit: Mariana Ortiz-Blanes
The Pulse
Science

Surviving Maria — from 1,500 miles away

As hurricane winds swept across Puerto Rico, journalist Syra Ortiz-Blanes watched from Philadelphia, unsure if her family back home was safe.

7 years ago

Listen 5:53
Workers from the power company, PREPA, work on a downed line in Utuado. Branches from a tree fell on the line, breaking it and causing a transformer to explode. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Enemy No. 1 for Puerto Rico’s utility: trees

One of the most complicated pieces of technology — the power grid — is no match for the forest.

7 years ago

Listen 7:28
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