Robert F. Bukaty
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AP
An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with no immediate reports of disruptions to power and communications. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated.
Aimee Dilger
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WVIA News
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The Campus Laboratory School at Carlow University recently hosted an experimental interdisciplinary approach to teach students about birds. -
Hundreds of thousands of anglers visit Pennsylvania’s streams and lakes every year to fish for trophy-sized trout. -
Flood waters are disrupting communities in parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Washington, and other counties across the Pittsburgh region this morning. -
Pennsylvania is receiving another quarter-billion dollars from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law this year – the latest federal investment in helping communities respond to environmental problems caused by abandoned mines. -
Officials say the aftermath of last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio doesn’t qualify as a public health emergency because widespread health problems and ongoing chemical exposures haven’t been documented. -
The state permit will allow PennEnergy Resources to extract 1.5 million gallons of water a day from Big Sewickley Creek. Biologists are worried this will harm the threatened redbelly dace. -
Save Carbon County, a grassroots environmental organization, sued a cryptocurrency plant and Gov. Josh Shapiro last week. -
The Department of Energy is awarding $90 million to a company that has promised to build what would be the largest solar project in the state on a former coal mine in central Pennsylvania. -
Tenaska, a Nebraska-based company, needs to lease land for injection wells and underground space to store carbon for what it calls its Tri-State CCS Hub in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. -
Can Gov. Josh Shapiro satisfy environmentalists and the GOP on climate change? With a proposed carbon cap-and-trade program, he’s trying.
