You may have noticed your electricity bill is rising. The Pennsylvania Utility Commission alerted consumers that the price of electric generation is increasing this month, just as it’s getting hotter ...

A new Ken Burns documentary, Henry David Thoreau, directed by Erik Ewers and Christopher Loren Ewers, examines Thoreau not just through the lens of American history, but also asks what his work means ...

This week, we look at the life and legacy of Henry David Thoreau, who has been called the godfather of the environmental movement. We interview the directors of a new Ken Burns documentary about ...

Work began earlier this month on a billion-dollar tunnel project intended to reduce untreated sewage and stormwater in the region’s rivers — contamination that fouls waterways, threatens public health ...

This story comes from WVIA News. For most of the country, weekly emergency visits for tick bites are at the highest rates for this time of year since 2017, according to the CDC. That’s also true for ...

These low-cost solar panels plug into any outlet and generate enough electricity to power a refrigerator or TV, lowering your electric bill.

Passenger pigeons used to be the most abundant bird in North America. By some estimates, they numbered in the billions. Many of their nesting grounds hugged the Great Lakes, so the people of this ...

Scientists test aquatic organisms for ‘forever chemicals’ in Montour Run near Pittsburgh International Airport ...

Directors Erik and Chris Ewers say Walden Pond taught Thoreau the "essence of nature isn't in the supreme vistas at the top of mountains... it's over your shoulder." ...

A new report by Concerned Health Professionals of NY and Physicians for Social Responsibility concludes that fracking is a public health crisis. That’s not a surprise. It’s the 9th edition of the ...

No one knows exactly when the roof of Control Room # 2 at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works started to leak. But leak it did, probably for “years,” in the words of one investigator hired by the ...

Twenty miles northeast of Pittsburgh, in Russellton, Pennsylvania, is a waste coal pile, although “pile” isn’t really accurate. It’s actually huge mountains of black rock stacked as tall as houses ...