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Penn State researchers help shine light on firefly populations in the eastern U.S.

Anne Danahy·May 21, 2024

Lightning bugs live in soil as larvae and eat snails and slugs, so lots of pavement are bad for the insects. So is nighttime light pollution.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife

A green woods with a path down the middle

Croydon Woods awarded for ‘environmental excellence.’ It’s a toxic Superfund site

WHYY·May 17, 2024

The Bucks County site, which has been under federal remediation for 30 years, is one of Pennsylvania’s last remaining coastal plain forests.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania

New film takes on aquatic invasives in Pennsylvania’s natural areas

Julie Grant·May 15, 2024

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy travels to three watersheds to feature invasive plants and fish and what people can do to prevent their spread.

Conservation Water Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

As spring flowers bloom, Callery pear trees can no longer be planted in Pa.

Zoë Read·May 14, 2024

Birds and other animals have spread its seeds, so now the tree crowds out native plants, disrupting ecosystems.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania

Green wooded mountain views with blue and white sky

Plan for low flyovers of fighter jets above PA Wilds is grounded

Kat Bolus·May 8, 2024

Maryland National Guard's jets would have flown just 100 feet above the ground. Pa.'s two U.S. senators and others pressured the military to abandon the plan.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania

A woman in a knit cap and yellow waders holds a fish upside down as water drips off of it, as a crowd looks on.

A trip to the fish hatchery that helps boost Pennsylvania’s walleye population

Kat Bolus·May 3, 2024

Walleye season begins Saturday in Pennsylvania. We get a behind-the-scenes look as the hatchery produces another generation of the freshwater fish.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife

A large concrete barrier runs across a stream

River group gets $1.2M to remove dams in Ohio and Susquehanna watersheds, improve fish habitat

Julie Grant·May 2, 2024

The non-profit group, American Rivers, will use a $1.2 million grant to reconnect nearly 200 miles of aquatic habitat in Western Pennsylvania.

Conservation Wild Pennsylvania Wildlife

Why conservationists are pushing to get the new Farm Bill reauthorized

Kara Holsopple·April 12, 2024

The legislation that sets agricultural policy, including conservation programs, is being held up in Congress.

Climate Change Conservation Food and Agriculture News Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

A Norfolk Southern locomotive crossing over a street

Amid some backlash, lawyers defend $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern

Oliver Morrison·April 11, 2024

Some residents said $600 million isn’t enough and wondered if it would cover future health conditions like cancer. They felt it was premature to settle.

East Palestine

Smoke cloud from burning vinyl chloride.

Norfolk Southern announces $600 million settlement in East Palestine train derailment class action

Ideastream Public Media·April 10, 2024

If approved by the court, the agreement will resolve all class action claims within a 20-mile radius of the derailment.

East Palestine

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Penn State researchers help shine light on firefly populations in the eastern U.S.

Croydon Woods awarded for ‘environmental excellence.’ It’s a toxic Superfund site

New film takes on aquatic invasives in Pennsylvania’s natural areas

As spring flowers bloom, Callery pear trees can no longer be planted in Pa.

Plan for low flyovers of fighter jets above PA Wilds is grounded

A trip to the fish hatchery that helps boost Pennsylvania’s walleye population

River group gets $1.2M to remove dams in Ohio and Susquehanna watersheds, improve fish habitat

Why conservationists are pushing to get the new Farm Bill reauthorized

Amid some backlash, lawyers defend $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern announces $600 million settlement in East Palestine train derailment class action