
Environment
The only way to beat poison ivy; the beneficial insects in your backyard; the wasp without which you could not get figs and the most impo ...
Air Date: August 18, 2017
Listen 00:53:13Congressman Frank Pallone warns that ocean drilling could lead to an oil spill
New Jersey officials are standing up against President Donald Trump’s offshore oil drilling proposal. Congressman Frank Pall ...
8 years ago
Environmentalists in New Jersey urge Congress not to cut the EPA’s budget
Environmental groups and New Jersey officials are urging Congress to reject President Donald Trump’s proposed 30 percent cut in the ...
8 years ago
What’s a cloud forest without clouds?
Scientists say climate change could dry out misty jungles in the Andes of Peru. Along mountainsides in Central and South America, ...
8 years ago
Listen 6:08Returning restaurants’ oyster shells back to the water
Shell recycling keeps them out of landfills and improves ecosystem health. About 120 miles east of Washington, D.C., Delaware’s ...
8 years ago
Listen 6:44Gulf Coast land loss threatens food sovereignty
Pointe-au-Chien and other Louisiana tribes want to protect native ways of eating. Native Americans living along Louisiana’s ...
8 years ago
Listen 9:46When natural history collections bow to other priorities
In 1962, Neil Douglas accepted a position in the brand new biology department of what is now the University of Louisiana Monroe. The scho ...
8 years ago
ListenChristie tells Trump White House ‘no’ on coastal energy
Gov. Chris Christie is telling the Trump administration that New Jersey is opposed to proposed natural gas and oil exploration off the st ...
8 years ago
NewsWorks Tonight, August 11, 2017 – Full Show
Dave Davies gives an overview on the republican candidate in Philadelphia’s City Controller race. Joel Wolfram reports that bulldoz ...
Air Date: August 11, 2017
Listen 19:59‘Ghost forests’ proliferating along North American fresh water coastlines
Matthew Kirwan, professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science speaks with NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller. Marshlands a ...
8 years ago
Listen 9:44EPA caves the day after Pa. & other states sue over ozone
The day after Pennsylvania, 14 other states and the District of Columbia sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its plan to delay ...
8 years ago
Margate to U.S. Army Corps: Get off our beach! [photos]
With angry residents packed into the meeting room at Margate’s historic City Hall, not to mention spilling into the hall, onto the fron ...
8 years ago
Group forms to block subsidies for N.J.’s aging nuclear power plans
A newly-formed coalition of consumer, business, and environmental groups is opposing ratepayer-funded subsidies for nuclear power plants. ...
8 years ago
On urban food access, don’t forget the voices of youth
We've heard experts, teachers, professors, politicians, and health workers weigh in on food access in Philadelphia, but we shouldn't forget the voices of those most affected.
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