Your Environment Update

During past periods of global warming, mammals actually got smaller in order to adapt. Scientists have recently discovered it's happening again.

President Trump's vision for cutting the EPA could impact everything from safe drinking water in Pennsylvania to the decades-long comeback of Lake Erie.

Record-high winter temperatures are causing everything from a super early maple syrup season to anxiety over climate change.

President Trump has promised a rollback of several environmental rules, including the Clean Power Plan. But scrapping big environmental regulations may not be so easy.

Is your data safe? Your climate data that is. Some worry that key climate research hosted on government websites is in danger of disappearing under the Trump administration.

A coalition of oil and gas companies is seeking a permit that would allow the killing or disturbing of five bat species in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

PennFuture President Larry Schweiger says he's approaching the incoming Trump administration with some apprehension. But the veteran environmentalist isn't totally free of optimism either.

Legacy pollutants like PCBs and dioxin, which may have been discharged into the Ohio River decades ago, can still make the water unsafe for living things—including us.

That fleet of Google Street View cars you see roaming Pittsburgh's streets isn't just collecting images for Google Maps. The cars are actually helping detect natural gas leaks.