This story comes from our partner, 90.5 WESA. A new report on Pittsburgh’s rivers details ongoing threats to the region’s waterways and calls for stricter regulations to reduce pollution. The Three ...

Local groups and the city of Marietta are concerned the migrating frack wastewater could impact drinking water sources.

On a Saturday morning in March, a demolition crew took down the smokestacks at the Homer City Generating Station. The plant – first commissioned in 1969 – once ...

As home gardeners are cleaning up their spring flower beds and vegetable patches, they might notice signs of a relatively new invasive species that’s made its way across Pennsylvania. Though Asian ...

Looking upstream, the Kinzua Dam seems to protrude brusquely from the Allegheny River. Nestled securely between the rolling hills of Warren County, Pennsylvania, the dam holds the river back. Behind ...

In the early morning, before the heat of the day, a crew from Beran Environmental Services met at the Fort Bedford Riverfront Park’s grassy riverbank. Next to it, the Raystown Branch of the Juniata ...

This story is part of our series, Wild Pennsylvania. Check out all of our stories here. A new study uses museum specimens to find out how the leaves of poison ivy in Pennsylvania have changed with the ...

Ken Fellows has been fishing off and on all his life. Last year, he decided to try his hand at turtles. He caught one near his favorite fishing hole along Montour Run, west of Downtown Pittsburgh “I ...

This story is the fourth in a series examining the aftermath of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, funded in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. It ...

This story is the fifth in a series examining the aftermath of the Feb. 3, 2023, Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, funded in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Want to know if you might have lead in your home’s pipes and faucets? Experts tell us that “there is no safe level of lead exposure.” This stuff is just not good for you, especially for developing ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found children living near shale gas activities in Southwest Pennsylvania had a higher risk of developing lymphoma. But the group found no ...