Environment

Each year tiny sandpipers — red knots — undertake a 19,000-mile journey from one end of the Earth to the other and back. ...

Biologists are confirming the first case of cancer in a smallmouth bass caught in the Susquehanna River. The Pennsylvania Fish and ...

The Supreme Court appears divided in a dispute over the Obama administration’s first-ever regulations aimed at reducing power plant ...

The Senate’s top Republican is telling states to ignore a central part of President Barack Obama’s plans to curb the pollutio ...

We asked you what your cities should do with their waterfronts. Here’s a look at some of the responses. Last week, we asked ...

Tell us your hopes and dreams for your city’s rivers.  You might be seeing a lot of ice these days, but we want you to ...

When imagining the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, it’s easy to picture places like Seaside Heights, and Mantoloking. But Sandy ...

High winds over the weekend helped drop the water level of the Delaware River to the lowest point in almo ...

It’s oil giant BP’s turn to call witnesses as it makes its case for a civil penalty lower than the $13.7 billion the federal ...

The slow and steady efforts of students at a New Jersey shore environmental science school to protect a species of turtle are about to pa ...

A wind-energy company is suing in federal court to block the government from releasing information to The Associated Press about how many ...

Two years after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, many of New Jersey’s coastal communities continue to struggle with reco ...

A western Pennsylvania township has created an advisory board on gas drilling and authorized restrictions on such development on resident ...

Over the last year, a sharp increase in accidents involving trains carrying crude oil has prompted emergency planners in Pennsylvania to ...

A southwestern Pennsylvania borough is trying to figure out who dumped 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of hydraulic fracturing water into its sewe ...