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Environment

An underwater single-use plastic carryout bag.
Down the Shore
Community

Another Shore town adopts plastic bag ban

A southern Ocean County municipality is the latest to adopt a plastic bag ban at the Jersey Shore.

7 years ago

The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Politics & Policy

How the EPA and the Pentagon downplayed a growing toxic threat

New analyses show it's likely more people than previously reported have been exposed to PFAs

7 years ago

Verizon crews pump water from an access tunnel in Manhattan in 2012 after flooding from Superstorm Sandy knocked out underground Internet cables. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Rising seas could cause problems for internet infrastructure

The dense network of cables that make up the internet is likely to be inundated with saltwater as sea levels rise, a new analysis suggests.

7 years ago

PPL's Brunner Island is a three-unit, coal-fired plant located on the west bank of the Susquehanna River, is seen in York Haven, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Delaware protests EPA decision on air pollution

State leaders and residents spoke out against the EPA’s denial of Delaware’s petition to reduce air pollution coming into Delaware from other states.

7 years ago

Drone footage captured by Anthony Murphy shows the outline of an ancient henge, visible in the pattern of crops grown in a field near Newgrange, Ireland. (Anthony Murphy/Mythical Ireland)
NPR
Science

In Ireland, drought and a drone revealed the outline of an ancient henge

A drone flight and a lingering dry spell have exposed a previously unknown monument in Ireland's Boyne Valley, forgotten for thousands of years and long covered by crops.

7 years ago

Morning dew glistens on a tobacco leaf in a field outside Rolesville, N.C. Despite a worldwide decline in production, tobacco remains North Carolina's most valuable crop. (Allen Breed/AP)
NPR
Health

It is legal for kids to work on tobacco farms, but it can make them sick

In the U.S., children under the age of 18 are legally barred from purchasing cigarettes or other tobacco products. But they are allowed to harvest tobacco on farms.

7 years ago

Smokestacks loom over Bull Island, northeast of Dublin, in 2008. (Dave Walsh/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Ireland expected to become world’s first country to divest from fossil fuels

Lawmakers in the Dail advanced a bill requiring the Irish government's more than $10 billion national investment fund to sell off stakes in coal, oil, gas and peat.

7 years ago

U.S. Army soldiers pass out water, provided by FEMA, to residents in a neighborhood without grid electricity or running water in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 17, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

FEMA report acknowledges failures in Puerto Rico disaster response

The report found Puerto Rico's emergency-supply warehouses were nearly empty when Hurricane Maria hit in October, without things like cots or tarps.

7 years ago

(Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Down the Shore
Community

Army Corps: Material pumped ashore at Ocean County beach harmless

As part of a beach fill and dune construction project along the northern Ocean County coast, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging and pumping sand on Ortley Beach.

7 years ago

You Bet Your Garden

Crossing The Pond with the Intent to Commit Horticulture

It’s often a bad idea to take plants across state lines with the intent to commit horticulture. On the latest You Bet Your Garden ...

Air Date: July 13, 2018

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The osprey population has grown in part because of a decline in contaminants in the Delaware estuary. (Photo/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Delaware estuary’s ospreys recover as fish contaminants decline, report says

The population growth suggests an overall improvement in the region’s ecological health.

7 years ago

People ride on the Sky Flyer at the State Fair Meadowlands carnival on July 5 in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Health

New Jersey environmentalist urging state to toughen air quality standards

An environmental group said public health in New Jersey is at risk from air pollution. Environment New Jersey director Doug O’Ma ...

7 years ago

Biologist Jessy Bokvist holds a coho salmon tissue sample in a lab at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Before DNA can be analyzed, Bokvist has to isolate it from tissue samples. (courtesy of Molly Segal)
The Pulse
Science

Epigenetics may hold answers to the survival of hatchery-born salmon

Coho salmon born in captivity are less likely to survive than those born in the wild, and scientists think captivity may be to blame.

7 years ago

Listen 06:23
A massive storm surge barrier stretching from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Breezy Point, New York is among hazard reduction proposals under consideration by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Google Maps image)
Down the Shore
Urban Planning

Army Corps considers massive storm surge barrier from N.J. to N.Y.

Other proposals include multiple smaller flood barriers, flood walls, berms, and levees.

7 years ago

A sign warns drivers of natural gas pipeline construction ahead. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Courts & Law

Federal appeals court dismisses pipeline case that charged FERC with bias

Ruling: Agency's pipeline approvals not linked to its funding

7 years ago

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