Your Environment Update Archives

A man with a gray beard leans against a huge tractor tire

Musician helps farmers open up with ‘Empty Barn’ song

Kara Holsopple·December 23, 2025

A former Pennsylvania dairy farmer takes his guitar on the road to address the mental health crisis in rural communities.

Food and Agriculture Health Your Environment Update

How Trump rollbacks on water and species protection could impact Pennsylvania

Reid Frazier·December 11, 2025

Changes could remove millions of acres of wetlands from federal protection and push plant and animal species toward extinction.

Conservation Trump 2.0 Water Wildlife Your Environment Update

How treated drinking water could be impacting local streams

Kara Holsopple·December 3, 2025

A study looked at phosphorus levels in Pittsburgh streams before and after drinking water was treated with a chemical to prevent lead corrosion in pipes.

Conservation Health Water Your Environment Update

Artifact or trash? Thoughts on what we leave behind.

Kara Holsopple·November 7, 2025

A writer has collected found items on her Westmoreland County farm for decades.

History Plastic Pollution Your Environment Update

Help wanted: Stop the spread of invasive round goby fish in Pa.

Kara Holsopple·October 31, 2025

The Eurasian round goby is causing big problems in Lake Erie, outcompeting native fish. Pennsylvania is looking to anglers to help stop it from spreading to inland waterways.

Conservation Recreation Water Wildlife Your Environment Update

A man in a yellow jacket stands on a truck overlooking a burning field

Beating back an invasive plant with fire

Kara Holsopple·October 24, 2025

After months of planning, the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden completed a prescribed burn on its Dogwood Meadow to inhibit the spread of a plant dubbed the “plague on the prairie.”

Conservation Wildlife Your Environment Update

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 Wild Pennsylvania Your Environment Update