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A monarch butterfly takes on a rest on the Kentucky prairie. Monarch numbers are down more than 80 percent from their 20-year average. Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

What’s the Best Way to Save the Monarch Butterfly?

Julie Grant·February 5, 2016

Chemical engineering student Anthony Richard experiments with converting carbon dioxide into methanol, a chemical compound used to make everything from paints to plastics to vinegar. Photo: Leigh Paterson / Inside Energy

Power Plant Emissions Can Put The Fizz in Your Soda (And Maybe Much More)

Leigh Paterson·February 5, 2016

Episode for February 5, 2016

The Allegheny Front·February 5, 2016

A monarch butterfly lands on a blade of switchgrass in Michigan. An environmental group is trying to get monarchs listed on the federal Endangered Species List. Photo: Jim Hudgins / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Your Environment Update for February 3, 2016

The Allegheny Front·February 3, 2016

Study Shows Lead Exposure May Impact Several Generations

Rebecca Williams·January 29, 2016

Glass of water

Lead-Tainted Water Has a Long History in the U.S.

Kara Holsopple·January 29, 2016

Residents of Sebring, Ohio have been picking up bottled water after they learned some homes were found to have elevated levels of lead in their drinking water. Public officials knew months ago. But the community wasn’t officially informed until January 21. Photo: Julie Grant

In an Ohio Town, Officials Waited Months to Disclose Dangerous Lead Levels

Julie Grant·January 29, 2016

Kurt Fristrup repairs a damaged recording system on a cattle pen in Colorado’s Pawnee National Grassland. Photo: Kerry Klein

Episode for January 29, 2016

The Allegheny Front·January 29, 2016

Your Environment Update for January 27, 2016

The Allegheny Front·January 27, 2016

Would you eat crickets? The UN thinks you should. The bugs got a big PR boost in 2013, after the United Nations came out with a report pushing insects as an environmentally friendly protein. Photo: Julie Grant

Eating Crickets is Good for You—and the Planet

Julie Grant·January 22, 2016

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