Environment

On a recent weekend stroll at Point State Park, in Pittsburgh, visitors sunned themselves in the grass and along the low walls of the par ...

The Philadelphia Water Department enacted new regulations this month to comply with the federal Clean Water Act. Directed at devel ...

A federal judge will hear arguments this month by fishing groups who want him to shut down a research project that involves blasting the ...

The National Weather Service says a tornado with maximum winds of 95 mph hit a rural southeastern Pennsylvania community during severe th ...

We’re gathering information, images, and short video clips for an interactive map documenting the state’s waterfronts and we ...

A multistate management commission is working on an assessment of the health of the black sea bass population. The Atlantic States ...

Fishermen along the New Jersey shore are worried that a sand-mining operation could ruin a fish habitat. ...

President Barack Obama says climate change deniers are endangering national security. Obama says the planet is getting warmer even ...

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 ...