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Northeast Philadelphia residents frustrated by ongoing rat problem: "You can't live like this"
14+ hour, 17+ min ago (374+ words) October 9, 2026 / 11:39 PM EDT / CBS Philadelphia Residents in several lower Northeast Philadelphia neighborhoods say a growing rat problem is disrupting daily life, damaging property and raising health concerns. Now, City Council is calling for a more aggressive response. Residents in Oxford…...
Opinion: New York can stop filling its parks with doomed 'pet' birds
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (471+ words) New York City Council Member Harvey Epstein speaks at a press conference in support of legislation protecting wild birds. Gerardo Romo / NYC Council Media Unit By Harvey Epstein and Liz Cabrera Holtz Every month, New Yorkers report dozens of escaped…...
Swiss glaciers lose over 5% of ice volume in 2026 as heat waves, low winter snow accelerate thaw
1+ week, 1+ day ago (690+ words) ZURICH, Switzerland — Glaciers in Switzerland — the home to the most in the Alps — lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report. “Alpine glaciers have no…...
Earth’s driest desert is covered in wildflowers right now
1+ week, 2+ day ago (661+ words) THE ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — Spring has finally arrived in the Southern Hemisphere and, in Chile, even the desert is blossoming. Known as the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, a massive portion of the Atacama Desert has been covered in flowers…...
Public gets to see big brown bats up close, but little browns are the ones making a big comeback
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Letter to the editor: Truths about fracking
1+ week, 3+ day ago (256+ words) Recently, 336,000 gallons of toxic frack flowback contaminated 37 acres in Indiana County, polluting Whiskey Run; the casing split. A frack tank valve failure caused a 4,610-gallon spill of contaminated water in Butler County. In Marietta, Ohio, toxic injected frack brine is…...
A Pennsylvania family protected a 30-acre farm beside 1,300 acres of preserved land; its mature oaks and hickories now provide habitat for turkeys, bats and hundreds of caterpillar species
1+ week, 5+ day ago (397+ words) A 30-acre farm in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County has been placed under a conservation easement, creating another protected link beside the 55-acre Russell-Mandel Preserve and a wider network of roughly 1,300 acres of preserved farmland and open space. Heritage Conservancy announced the…...
Snakes in Pa., including its 3 venomous species, really just want to be left alone
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Washington County outdoors organization sues PennDOT and DEP, claiming damage to local creek
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Xi says 2 giant pandas from China will arrive in the coming days at Atlanta’s zoo
2+ week, 2+ day ago (238+ words) ATLANTA — Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days, bolstering a loan program that at one time had lapsed as part of tensions between Beijing and Washington....