earth sciences

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Steward program will hold its fifth annual native tree and shrub sale this fall in 27 locati...

Outdoor Foundation’s Participation Trends Report finds a record 175.8 million participants in various outdoor activities. 57.3% of all Americans aged ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are probably aware of the massive push to transition to green energy. The goal is to have wind and solar r...

MILWAUKEE — The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on four draft environmental assessments evaluating potential impacts from the propos...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The discovery of a hybrid population of poplar trees in western Wyoming has provided insight into how natural hybridization informs ...

HARRISBURG — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced that Benn Carlson has been appointed to serv...

Lilly Kemick of Bradford and Benjamin Porkolab of St. Marys are among four regional students who will share in $2,750 in Sandy Cochran Memorial Schola...

You couldn’t touch the floor. Everywhere you put your foot down, there was lava. It would burn you up! It was total danger! Everybody knew it, which i...

MOUNT STORM, W.Va. (AP) — Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting es...

HEAT: It’s certainly been warm outside lately, which had us sitting in front of a fan while we looked up some record temperatures around the nation. T...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service recently partnered with multiple organizations to rehabilitate and enhance existing wildlife habita...

Liquid manure from Greg Strayer’s beef farm in Cumberland County does not threaten the Conodoguinet Creek any longer, thanks to a 185,000-gallon stora...

MARIENVILLE — The USDA Forest Service is accepting public comments on a proposal to replace an existing stone and corrugated metal pipe culvert with a...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Fire can help shape ecosystems, and after a century of suppressing naturally occurring fire that has thrown forests out of balance, ...

HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Pennsylvania couple vacationing in Florida with their six children drowned after they were caught in a rip current wh...

OLEAN, N.Y. — The Seneca Nation of Indians has again threatened to take legal action against the city of Olean over wastewater discharges. Seneca Nati...

(TNS) — Summer 2024 has certainly started off strong with a multi-day heatwave settling over much of the Northeast. And while each year seems like the...

CLEARFIELD — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced a bridge replacement project will begin in Sergeant Township, McKean Co...

Bradford Sanitary Authority has been working to repair some issues for customers recently. At Tuesday’s meeting, members of the authority heard from E...

The community of Cyclone in Keating Township has the misfortune of being chosen as a site for a Class II injection disposal well by Catalyst Energy of...