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 ...

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 ...

[The emails] showed me, for example, that in April, 2025, months before Amazon announced its $20 billion investment, the Shapiro office offered Amazon “exclusive early access” to a permitting program ...

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

In the same week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would give Pennsylvania more than $39 million to address PFAS contamination in drinking water, the agency also said it ...

The Trump administration is drastically cutting the budget, and reorganizing the U.S. Forest Service, moving its headquarters and research facilities to western states. In Pennsylvania, four research ...

It’s well known that smoking can lead to lung cancer. New research also finds a connection between air pollution and lung cancer. A team of epidemiologists have been looking into the causes of various ...

Hannah Hohman and Koa Reitz stood on an old bridge on a sunny afternoon, looking down at the confluence of two streams. Hohman glanced back and forth between the iced ...

Is January too early to think about spring flowers blooming? According to a new scientific paper, we aren’t waiting as long for those first native wildflowers to bloom in Pennsylvania thanks to ...

Meta says it has reached a deal to purchase power from the Beaver Valley nuclear plant in western Pennsylvania and two others in Ohio, as part of its efforts to power its artificial intelligence ...

How much toxic oil and gas waste is produced in Pennsylvania every year, and where does it end up? Despite state efforts to track it, there’s no way to know for sure. That’s one of the takeaways from ...

This is part of a series tracking waste from the fracking industry. Off a back road in the hilly country south of Pittsburgh, a tributary to the Monongahela River runs through overgrown vegetation and ...