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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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This winter the Northeast Wastewater Treatment plant by the Betsy Ross Bridge has become home to a host of unexpected guests: southern cave swallows!
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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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This time last Monday, communities all along the East Coast braced for Hurricane Sandy, a ferocious event pushing tropical storm conditions into a cold front directly over the Northeast, all during the high tides of a full moon.
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Delaware Riverkeeper Maya Van Rossum has One Great Idea for Philadelphia: Plant native shrubs and trees where possible on your lawn to absorb and filter stormwater runoff that can erode and damage creeks and streams. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
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Last summer, we celebrated the spotting of American shad below the Black Rock Dam near Phoenixville—the first time the native species had been observed above Norristown since 1820. This summer, the shad look to shatter that record.
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The Philly Watersheds Blog is not in the habit of posting photos of baby animals for the sake of posting photos of baby animals (although it is Friday, and who among you would blame us?), and so we inform you that this red-bellied turtle hatchling was spotted earlier this week near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge along the Delaware River.
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