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 A view of the proposed pipeline which would run along and beneath Routes 49 and 50 in New Jersey. (Map courtesy of capeatlanticreliability.com)

Official recommends Pinelands Commission approve pipeline

The executive director of the New Jersey commission considering a new gas pipeline through the Pinelands has recommended the panel approv ...

9 years ago

A fire line in a controlled burn. (Image courtesy of New Jersey Forest Fire Service)

Prescribed burns underway in New Jersey forests

The New Jersey State Forest Fire Service is attempting controlled burns on 10,000 to 20,000 acres of forest and grassland before wildfire ...

9 years ago

A starling murmuration over Atlantic County Utilities Authority in New Jersey. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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Synchronized defense: How animals move as one to avoid predators

When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.

9 years ago

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Demonstrators from the Climate Justice Alliance are shown rallying outside the Environmental Protection Agency in Center City in January 2016. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Philadelphia’s protestors must embrace a diversity of causes, including environmental justice

As a public health advocate, it can be difficult to situate environmental issues in the larger progressive struggle. Today’s activists ...

9 years ago

Ramapough prayer camp in N.J. raises awareness about water poisoning
Politics & Policy

A common cause; from Standing Rock to Sweet Water, New Jersey’s Pilgrim Pipeline

Teepees dot the plain beside the river, totem poles mark a circular prayer site, and men in moccasins and fur caps tend the ceremonial campfire.

9 years ago

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Pa. Dems organizing against attacks on climate interests

With Washington now working to roll back environmental regulations, build pipelines, and potentially withdraw from global climate agreeme ...

9 years ago

Climate change film ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ gets a sequel

Al Gore’s climate change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is getting a sequel. Paramount Pictures said Frid ...

10 years ago

State Impact Pennsylvania hosted a forum on the Politics of Pennsylvania’s Energy Future at WHYY studios on Tuesday, October 25th, 2016. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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How should Pa. balance energy needs with environmental protection?

Pa. coal production has slowed since the Marcellus Shale boom began, and concerns linger about the environmental impact of both. StateImp ...

10 years ago

A small quiet waterfall in Duke Farms in Central New Jersey. (Big Stock photo)
Health

Climate change could threaten our drinking water

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10 years ago

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture has declared several Pennsylvania counties — Cameron

Disaster loans available to agricultural businesses hurt by drought

Federal agencies are making loans available to agricultural business hurt by drought conditions. It’s been a dry summer in P ...

10 years ago

Paleontological fieldwork, Nunavut Territory, Canada. (Courtesy of Ted Daeschler)
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Finders keepers doesn’t apply to fossils and bones

Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...

10 years ago

Fernbank Forest’s tree canopy stretches 156 feet into the air. Many of the trees have been able to live two or three hundred years. (Stephannie Stokes/for WHYY)
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Science

Fighting for preservation in a wooded natural history museum

Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...

10 years ago

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Kirk Johnson, the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, in front of a display case in his office. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

10 years ago

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Tomatoes on the vine at Greensgrow in Kensington are just a small part of the legacy of the urban farm's founder
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Greensgrow founder Corboy an uncommon Philadelphia leader

Mary Seton Corboy, founder of Greensgrow, a farm in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, died on Aug. 7 at the age of 58.

10 years ago

The Drillboat Apache works to deepen the Delaware River near Chester Pa., in March of 2016. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Delaware River ports fight for market share as dredging project nears completion

Bigger ships and more cargo flowing through the ports of Philadelphia and South Jersey should mean more jobs and higher economic activity ...

10 years ago

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