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Environment

This photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a red knot in Mispillion Harbor, Delaware.  (Gregory Breese, USFWS/AP Photo)
Science

Delaware Bay’s crabs contributing to dip in already threatened red knot population

The red knots stop for nourishment along the Delaware Bay on their annual journey from Chile to the Arctic.

7 years ago

On Jan. 28, 2015, with a record low snowpack, chairs sit idle on a ski lift at Donner Ski Ranch in Norden, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
NPR
Money

New report finds climate change could take a $1B bite from winter sports

Low and variable snowfall is expected to become more commonplace as the climate warms.

7 years ago

A Mariner East 2 construction site in Lebanon County. Sunoco says it expects to have the pipeline in service by the end of the second quarter, 2018. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Sunoco: Mariner East 2, despite shutdown, expected in service by end of June

Sunoco said Thursday it aims to begin operating its Mariner East 2 pipeline across southern Pennsylvania by the end of the second quarter of this year.

7 years ago

After more than two weeks of not being able to drink water from the tap, residents in Blades, Delaware have been given the all clear. (Dan Rosenthal/WHYY)
Community

Blades residents’ water safe to drink after flushing, Delaware officials say

Residents in Blades will soon be able to drink public water, a couple weeks after their supply was determined to be unsafe.

7 years ago

Sherry Ott says Antarctica is as close as you'll come to leaving the planet.
The Pulse
Science

Should tourists go to Antarctica?

Maybe you just want to see penguins or icebergs, but visiting the South Pole also means transforming the landscape — and adding to your carbon debt.

7 years ago

Listen 7:20
Visitors watch a bear feasting on salmon. The Homalco Nation has invested in a wildlife viewing operation on its territory.
The Pulse
Science

Canada’s First Nations use tourism to protect natural resources

Communities along Canada’s western coast combine conservation and tourism to create jobs that line up with their cultural values.

7 years ago

Listen 7:45
Workers pass bags of concrete in a human chain from a park road to a zip line platform further down the hill in El Yunque National Forest. T
The Pulse
Science

Fixing a forest for Puerto Rico’s recovery

Tourists once flocked to El Yunque National Forest. After landslides of hurricane damage in 2017, work crews are sweating to reopen it.

7 years ago

Listen 6:04
Refinery workers at Philadelphia Energy Solutions wait to hear Republican Senator Ted Cruz speak at a rally against the Renewable Fuel Standards. The company blames the program for its financial troubles in a recent bankruptcy filing.(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Ted Cruz blasts renewable fuel standards at Philadelphia refinery

Speaking to hundreds of refinery workers, Cruz railed against the federal program known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), while the workers cheered.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions is the largest refiner on the East Coast, taking Bakken Shale oil from North Dakota and turning it into gasoline. The company is the largest stationary emitter of particulate matter in the city. (Peter DeCarlo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Philadelphia Energy Solutions: A giant polluter looms over the lives — and health — of its neighbors

The refinery is Philadelphia’s single largest stationary source of particulate pollution.

7 years ago

The Mariner East 2 pipeline has officially broken ground in the Delaware County town of Aston. The beginning stages of the pipeline includes clear cutting trees and preparing makeshift roads for the heavy machinery to traverse. (Emily Cohen for StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Mariner East 2: Sunoco’s public utility status trumps local regulation, court says

7 years ago

 The Point Breeze refinery sits along the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. (Kellie McGinn/Philadelphia Energy Solutions)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Philadelphia Energy Solutions: A giant polluter looms over the lives — and health — of its neighbors

7 years ago

From the porch of her Palmerton farmhouse, Albertine Anthony looks out on the rolling hills of lower Carbon County. She believes the PennEast pipeline's proposed route through her 124-acre farm threatens her water supply.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Landowners brace for eminent domain loss in PennEast pipeline cases

Despite her alarm at the prospect of losing her spring water, Anthony says she’s not moving even if the pipeline is built on her land.

7 years ago

The diorama featuring gorillas will be one of two to get a fresh cleaning. This week, glaziers took the glass off the display for the first time in 80 years to allow workers to access it. (Irina Zhorov/WHYY)
Science

After more than 80 years, dioramas at the Academy of Natural Sciences get a cleaning

A team of glaziers recently lifted the glass off the gorilla display for renovations — to a round of applause from museum employees.

7 years ago

A sign marks the path of the Mariner East 1 pipeline through Chester County. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Chester County township adds to local challenges on Mariner East 2 siting

The new board determined that the natural gas liquids pipeline is being built well within a “pipeline impact radius.”

7 years ago

Environmental groups at a rally against Shell's Beaver County petrochemical complex in Pittsburgh. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

DEP extends comment period for Shell’s ethane pipeline

The DEP will also hold public hearings in each of the three counties the pipeline route traverses: Washington, Allegheny, and Beaver counties.

7 years ago

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