Carol Parenzan founded the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association and is now turning her attention to a new way to connect people with rivers, as The Water Healer.
In Sherrie Flick's lastest short story collection, "I Have Not Considered Consequences," bears mingle with people in surprising and thought-provoking ways.
In Springdale, a borough of 3,000 east of Pittsburgh, a year of immigration arrests, data center opposition and confrontations with local officials has fueled a new wave of organizing.
Landscape paintings by Pittsburgh-based multimedia artist DS Kinsel are on display at the Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh through September 26.
A citizen group based in Westmoreland County hosted a webinar to share information about what they say is the report’s incomplete investigation of the potential harm to the Commonwealth.
A federal agency faulted U.S. Steel for a lack of safety procedures which caused the death of two workers at one if its plants last year. A new report from Pennsylvania environmental groups finds more than half of monitored waterways statewide had at least one day with high levels of e-coli bacteria last year. We take a look at pollution from a chemical plant along the banks of the Monongahela River. An environmental engineer started a new act as a storyteller and educator for local waterways. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has unanimously ruled wildlife officers cannot enter open fields and woods without a warrant. With soaring energy demand and a friendly federal administration, coal companies are angling for a comeback.
We speak with the author of a collection of stories that has a furry recurring theme: bears. A reporter tags along into the woods with some birders to talk to barred owls. An environmental group is claiming the latest Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection publication about underground mining damages to properties and the environment has major issues.
Conservationists are trying to stop the spread of the invasive wavyleaf basketgrass in Pennsylvania's forests. A new exhibit of landscape paintings in Pittsburgh encourages rest and reflection. Concrete made with plants, like flax, has climate benefits. Several environmental groups in Pennsylvania are casting doubt on a report about landfill runoff released by state regulators. Three Mile Island is on schedule to receive nuclear material by the end of the year. A grandson and grandmother visit all 63 national parks together.
