Penn State team leading center focused on stopping tick-borne diseases
Penn State will get $6.25 million over five years from the CDC for the center. Pa. has the most cases of Lyme disease in the country.
Anne Danahy
Bellefonte, in Centre County, votes to shelve its Climate Action Plan
One council member who voted to suspend the plan said he got emails from residents asking him to "not spend another breath on this, and please work on the things that are important to us."
Learning to live with wildfires, as climate change heats up
Wildfires in Canada are breaking records this year. A Penn State fire ecology expert talks about what role climate change is playing.
A Penn State professor explains how the northern lights put on a show for Pennsylvanians
Seeing northern lights in Pennsylvania is unusual. But because of a peak in the solar cycle over the next couple of years, we'll be seeing more of them here.
Violation at a Pennsylvania drilling site raises questions about lack of Bitcoin regulation
The company, Diversified Gas and Oil, did not have a permit to install the air pollution sources used to generate power for crypto mining.
Pennsylvania considers boosting forest biodiversity with reintroduction of the American marten
The Pa. Game Commission is holding public meeting around the state to get input from the public on reintroducing the American marten.
Plans for a gas station next to a popular wetland in Huntingdon County spark opposition
Birders and residents are against a plan to build a gas station and truck stop next to the Old Crow Wetland. They say it would threaten an area teeming with wildlife.
Turkeys are in decline in Pennsylvania. The Game Commission wants to know why
Loss of habitat, predators and even the weather are among the possible reasons turkeys are in decline.
EPA asks a Bitcoin ‘mining’ operation in Clearfield County for information
Big Dog Energy installed 30 natural gas-powered generators and a gas-producing unit at a well pad without authorization from DEP. Now, EPA is involved.
For a rural Pennsylvania area, a cryptocurrency mine brought noise pollution
One neighbor describes the noise coming from the Bitcoin mining site at a nearby gas well as “basically like a jet engine."
