Help wanted: River Ice Spotters to keep an eye on potential flooding

Kara HolsoppleJanuary 20, 2023

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh is looking for volunteers to help identify hazardous river conditions like ice jams.

ConservationWaterYour Environment Update

DEP issues scathing report on the conventional oil and gas industry

Kara HolsoppleJanuary 13, 2023

DEP calls out the industry as having "a culture of noncompliance as an acceptable norm."

EnergyPollutionYour Environment Update

Turning to Forests for Better Health

Kara HolsoppleJanuary 12, 2023

People are finding that forests are good medicine. To improve health, one local therapist is taking groups 'forest bathing' in Frick Park.

HealthRecreationWild PennsylvaniaYour Environment Update

Groups, residents want EPA to protect Mon Valley from ‘unacceptably high’ levels of benzene pollution from U.S. Steel

Reid FrazierJanuary 4, 2023

Benzene, a known carcinogen, threatens ‘imminent danger’ to residents, the groups argue in a letter to EPA. They want action under the Clean Air Act.

HealthPollutionYour Environment Update

A wildlife biologist’s new birding guide brings everyone into the flock

Kara HolsoppleDecember 30, 2022

A co-organizer of Black Birders Week has written a new guide for people who love birds, and those who don’t know it yet.

ConservationCultureWild PennsylvaniaWildlifeYour Environment Update

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ turns 60. Why it still resonates

Kara HolsoppleDecember 23, 2022

The instant classic warned that chemicals could have unintended consequences on the environment. That same warning could be given today.

CultureHistoryYour Environment Update

A nature poet grapples with life at the edge of the climate crisis 

Kara HolsoppleDecember 23, 2022

Penn State professor Todd Davis has a new book of poetry that explores the damage that people have done to each other and nature.

Climate ChangeConservationCultureWild PennsylvaniaYour Environment Update

Get to know trees on a winter walk with Tree Pittsburgh

Kara HolsoppleDecember 16, 2022

Become a nature detective this winter to learn to identify trees by their shapes, seed pods and branch patterns.

ConservationWild PennsylvaniaYour Environment Update

Ohio bill to spur fracking in state parks and forests heads to governor’s office

Julie GrantDecember 16, 2022

The bill has raised fears that Ohio agencies will be required to lease state-owned parks, forests, preserves and universities to fracking.

ConservationEnergyPoliticsYour Environment Update

What you need to know about the massive gas leak in Cambria County

Kara HolsoppleNovember 30, 2022

The massive natural gas leak at a storage facility near Johnstown ranks up there with some of the biggest in recent memory.

Climate ChangeEnergyPollutionYour Environment Update