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This group wants to help you make your yard more wild

Kara Holsopple·October 23, 2025

Wild Ones wants to help people plant yards and gardens that nurture the Earth rather than harm it. This fall, try leaving the leaves in your yard to help wildlife.

Conservation Latest Stories Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update

Three brook trout on a wooden board with a ruler

View from the Mon: Climate change’s impact on native brook trout

Kara Holsopple·October 10, 2025

A study compared the impact of climate on native brook trout in 11 streams in the Laurel Highlands in the Monongahela River watershed.

Climate Change Conservation Latest Stories Reporting from the Mon Water Wildlife Your Environment Update

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Heinz Award-winning environmental justice leader says the EJ movement is ‘not over.’

Kara Holsopple·October 3, 2025

Sacoby Wilson, Ph.D., does environmental research for the people, working with impacted communities to get the data they need to take action.

Environmental Justice Pollution Your Environment Update

View from the Mon: Mapping the river

Kara Holsopple·October 3, 2025

John Detisch started an online mapping project of the Monongahela River to advocate for its health and future.

Conservation Recreation Reporting from the Mon Water Your Environment Update

A black and white photo of factories along a river

View from the Mon: Industry, historical pollution and prosperity

Kara Holsopple·September 26, 2025

Ron Baraff of Rivers of Steel says without the Monongahela River, the Pittsburgh region would not have developed into an industrial power.

Economy History Pollution Reporting from the Mon Water Your Environment Update

A tug boat pushes a barge full of coal up a river.

The muddy Monongahela River is working its way back to health, but still bears a heavy burden from the past

The Allegheny Front·September 26, 2025

The Monongahela River began to recover in the early '70s, but still bears the marks of coal mining and other heavy industries.

Conservation Pollution Reporting from the Mon Water Your Environment Update

Two people paddle a kayak down the center of a river towards a bridge.

View from the Mon: Muddy water, paddlefish and sewage overflow

Kara Holsopple·September 19, 2025

For our series, Reporting From the Mon, we're talking to people with different perspectives on the Monongahela River. Annie Quinn is the founder of the Mon Water Project.

Conservation Pollution Reporting from the Mon Wildlife Your Environment Update

A woman in a neon green baseball hat holding a large gray bucket, stands under a neon green tent with a table behind her.

It’s easy to compost. Just drop off your food waste at a Pittsburgh farmers market

Isabel Kim·September 12, 2025

Pittsburgh offers a composting drop-off for food waste at its four Citiparks farmers markets. Bring veggie scraps, but no meat or dairy.

Climate Change Food and Agriculture Your Environment Update

Coke plant’s closure near Pittsburgh led to immediate health benefits, study finds

Reid Frazier·September 5, 2025

ER visits for pediatric asthma and cardiovascular disease plummeted after the Shenango coke plant on Neville Island closed in 2016.

Environmental Justice Health Pollution Your Environment Update

A massive tower of flames with black smoke as seen from afar

Online tool helps Beaver County residents evaluate air quality

Kara Holsopple·August 28, 2025

The Eyes on Air webpage publishes real-time pollution data from five new air monitors placed throughout Beaver County.

Health Pollution Your Environment Update

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Your Environment Update

This group wants to help you make your yard more wild

View from the Mon: Climate change’s impact on native brook trout

Heinz Award-winning environmental justice leader says the EJ movement is ‘not over.’

View from the Mon: Mapping the river

View from the Mon: Industry, historical pollution and prosperity

The muddy Monongahela River is working its way back to health, but still bears a heavy burden from the past

View from the Mon: Muddy water, paddlefish and sewage overflow

It’s easy to compost. Just drop off your food waste at a Pittsburgh farmers market

Coke plant’s closure near Pittsburgh led to immediate health benefits, study finds

Online tool helps Beaver County residents evaluate air quality