An environmental engineer is starting a new act as a storyteller and educator for local waterways. A state legislator in Ohio wants to bring back the state’s elk. We take a peak into the springtime ...

When researchers took smoking out of the equation, lung cancer rates dropped much more than in counties with cleaner air ...

A study by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found the liquid runoff from Pennsylvania landfills that take solid oil and gas waste poses no “significant” threat to the public ...

A new study finds air pollution in the Pittsburgh region was responsible for up to 3,500 deaths in 2019. The study found that even air quality considered “safe” by regulators led to premature deaths.

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 ...

The 2026 Pennsylvania River of the Year is the Conestoga River, in the southeastern part of the state. Its headwaters are in Berks County, and the river flows more than 61 miles, meeting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is part of a series tracking waste from the fracking industry. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in 2015, he knew that he would be ...

A new nature preserve opened this year in a wooded valley in Bloomingdale, Ohio, about an hour west of Pittsburgh. The Hellbender Preserve provides education not only about eastern hellbender ...

For our series, Reporting From the Mon, we’re talking to people with different perspectives on the Monongahela River. For this interview, we head east into the Laurel Highlands to a tributary of the ...