The Great Melt Is Here … Are Your Storm Drains Clear?
January 26, 2016 | Brian Rademaekers
Winter Storm Jonas surely lived up to—and even exceeded—all the Snowpocalypse/Snowzilla hype.
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Worried About Salt? Smart Winter Deicing Tips to Protect Rivers, Creeks and Pets
January 22, 2016 | Brian Rademaekers
If you’re the kind of person who thinks about the health of our urban watersheds, you’ve probably wondered if using too much salt on driveways and sidewalks can hurt Philly’s rivers and creeks.
Read More →Freakishly Warm Philly Weather Has Climate Change on Our Minds
December 14, 2015 | Abby Sullivan
At the start of the month, we talked about the Paris climate change conference and what we’re doing to prepare for global warming. Record high temperatures were set over the weekend and more highs are likely this week
Read More →‘Invisible Flying Rivers’: How Trees Help Manage Stormwater: It’s a pretty abstract concept, but Antonio Nobre, one of Brazil’s leading climate scientists, described the impact of e
November 30, 2015 | Brian Rademaekers
It’s a pretty abstract concept, but Antonio Nobre, one of Brazil’s leading climate scientists, described the impact of evapotranspiration in a very cool way while talking to NPR’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in early November:
Read More →Fightin’ Phils: A Caddis Comeback?
July 17, 2015 | Brian Rademaekers
Uh, not those Phils. With 62 losses already in the season and the All-Star break just behind us, we’re talking about the comeback of a different kind of “Phils,” the aquatic insects of the family Philopotamidae.
Read More →Endangered Shortnose Sturgeon Returns to the Schuylkill
November 7, 2014 | Public Affairs
Last summer, just below the Fairmount Dam on the Schuylkill River, an angler managed to catch a shortnose sturgeon, a species of fish that has been on the endangered species list since 1967!
Read More →Fish Food for Thought
May 23, 2014 | Paul Fugazzotto
PWD’s Lance Butler and Joe Perillo were working last week and found this very large striped bass. Pretty amazing to see aquatic life like this from a river that was once too polluted to support it.
Read More →Where Did All The Peaches Go?
May 17, 2013 | Public Affairs
May 10th was an historic day in climate change history. CO2 at Mauna Loa, location of the longest unbroken records of CO2 levels, hit 400ppm.
Read More →Sewage Plant Going to the Birds
February 8, 2013 | Public Affairs
This winter the Northeast Wastewater Treatment plant by the Betsy Ross Bridge has become home to a host of unexpected guests: southern cave swallows!
Read More →Philadelphia Inquirer: Love Your River
November 27, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
The Schuylkill is a vital part of Philadelphia’s social and physical landscape, and the once-mistreated river is on its way back.
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