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Environment

South Seaside Park in August 2017. (Justin Auciello for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Community

No water quality concerns at N.J. beaches as holiday weekend begins

The water quality at all New Jersey beaches is acceptable for swimming as the long holiday weekend begins.  The New Jersey De ...

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Harvey-level damage probably won’t happen in Philadelphia, but intense flooding already does

8 years ago

Black-Eyed Susans
You Bet Your Garden

Native Plants Special

What to incorporate native plants into your landscape, but you’re not sure which ones are right for you? On a very special You Bet ...

Air Date: September 1, 2017

Listen 00:53:12
 Jennifer Bryant looks over the debris from her family business destroyed by Hurricane Harvey Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Katy, Texas. Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
National Interest
Science

Climate change wakeup: Humans likely made Harvey much worse

Hurricane Harvey is precisely the extreme “weather event” that climate scientists have long been warning about. But while Tru ...

8 years ago

evacuees from Hurricane Harvey
Radio Times
Science

Hurricane Harvey, 5 years after Sandy

Guests: James Lee Witt, Matt Arco, Tony Broccoli Hurricane Harvey has brought floods and devastation to Southeast ...

Air Date: August 29, 2017

Listen 00:48:59
 Gov. Carney signed an executive order to create a working group to examine the possibility of offshore wind in Delaware.(Zoë Read/WHYY)
Science

Delaware takes another try at offshore wind [video]

Gov. Carney signed an executive order to explore the possibility of offshore wind in Delaware.  Gov. John Carney, D-Delaware, ...

8 years ago

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The author's home in the process of being elevated 5 feet higher.
Urban Planning

Why more and more homes are getting taller in Ocean City, N.J.

Many more homes are being lifted above expected future flood heights, or razed and replaced to comply with newer, more stringent flood protection standards.

8 years ago

 The smokestacks of the former Lucas paint factory loom over the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek Superfund site in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. Contamination at the site stems from improper paint disposal by Lucas Paint Works and its successor, Sherwin Williams Inc. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

South Jersey paint factory caused ‘cancer cluster,’ lawsuit alleges

Several current and former Camden County residents have developed cancer and other illnesses as a result of toxic contamination emanating ...

8 years ago

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Health

Philadelphia students get dirt under their nails producing fresh fruit for their neighborhoods

In a city where far too many lack access to fresh fruits and vegetables, opportunities for communities to create their own sources of hea ...

8 years ago

Community

Urban garden brings life to Wilmington’s East Side

Revitalization projects on Wilmington’s East Side are helping to nourish, raise hope and rebuild a community plagued with poverty, ...

8 years ago

 (Graphic courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Health

Panic is the biggest enemy for those caught in a rip current

“Don’t Panic.” In Douglas Adam’s brilliant sci-fi comedy “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ...

8 years ago

poison ivy
You Bet Your Garden

Summer Special #4

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

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 The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Jersey, as depicted in Google Earth.
Politics & Policy

Congressman 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

 Some environmental leaders and government officials announced their opposition Thursday to Trump’s proposed EPA cuts. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

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

Sunset at Wayqecha Biological Station at 10,000 above sea level. Below, the Amazon Basin stretches out for thousands of miles toward the Atlantic Ocean. (Dan Grossman/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

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

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