“Sustainability has always been a central tenet of the restaurant,” said Kate Lasky, co-owner of Apteka. “But in a way where we really try to take every decision we make seriously and ask, ‘What are ...

Pollution from the Pittsburgh airport has found its way into a nearby stream. Scientists are looking into how PFAS forever chemicals got there and what happens next. The U.S. Environmental Protection ...

Summer temperatures are already soaring in some parts of the world. The UK and Europe experienced a record-breaking heatwave in May. As extreme weather events become more common with climate change, ...

A new study shows rising temperatures around the world are associated with a higher risk of kidney disorders.

For decades, the airport used PFAS-containing firefighting foam. Now, the stream that captures the airport’s runoff has the "forever chemicals." ...

This story was first published September 12, 2025. Americans discard millions of tons of food every year, not only wasting the resources it took to produce and transport that food but also ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story comes from our partner, 90.5 WESA. Massive computing centers proposed across Pennsylvania could be a huge draw on the power grid, causing worries that electric bills will rise for the rest ...

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 ...

The Allegheny Health Department has fined U.S. Steel $2 million for violating state laws on hydrogen sulfide emissions at its Clairton plant. The county found the company’s Clairton coke works caused ...

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 ...