Outdoors

It's been three years since the DEP scrapped its Motorized Access Plan that would have sharply reduced the number of Pinelands roads and trails that could be legally used.

Graffiti Pier is on track for reinvention into a public park unlike any other in the United States.

Some sunscreen ingredients are absorbed into your bloodstream. It's not clear how much of a health concern this is, if any, but the FDA is calling for more research.

Delaware is the 12th state to spot the invasive Asian longhorned tick.

The little gelatinous, translucent blobs now making their annual appearance at New Jersey's beaches are known as salps.

Wind can turn the sunshades into “projectile spears,” U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez said. He wants a federal agency to issue safety guidelines.

A new analysis shows where the city has street trees, revealing a gap between well-off neighborhoods and those with higher rates of poverty.

The regal fritillary, a rare butterfly that’s nearly disappeared from the eastern United States, has found refuge in a surprising place — a National Guard training center.

The National Weather Service said "a dangerous heat wave" sent temperatures into the 90s, with high humidity that made it feel considerably hotter.

Philadelphia’s 70+ indoor and outdoor public swimming pools represent our city at its best.

Farmers in Philadelphia are watching their crop yields decrease as a result of the heat. They say there’s nothing they can really do about it.

Philly is under a heat health emergency this week — a new scientific report says the region will see more dangerously warm days if there's no action to cut global emissions.

Beachgoers looking for at least some relief from searing heat and humidity Wednesday will have to deal with a high risk of rip currents.

Boating New Jersey's Intracoastal Waterway will soon become even safer once the U.S. Coast Guard completes work that is set to begin Monday.

Improvements at the popular Cape Henlopen State Park site help create what organizers call America’s “best WWII museum inside a WWII facility.”