Environment & Outdoors
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Delaware County Park Coming to 213-Acre Don Guanella School Site in Marple
Delaware County Council has introduced an ordinance to acquire the 213-acre parcel at the former Don Guanella School for use as a county-owned park, the biggest in its system. If the ordinance is adopted, it will allow the County to use Pennsylvania’s eminent domain law to take the property and compensate the site owners. The…
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Too Much of a Good Thing? Media Borough Overdevelopment Worries Some
Media still feels like the small town it always was, a place where neighbors know neighbors, writes Kenny Cooper for whyy.org. But now Media is at-risk of losing that home-town feel. The culprit is unchecked development and suburban sprawl. Media’s losing green space and housing prices have soared, threatening the racially and economically diverse community.…
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Brookhaven School Goes Virtual for Last Days Following Major Gas Spill Nearby
A major gas spill in Brookhaven is disrupting some end-of-year school activity at Coebourn Elementary School in Brookhaven, reports Corey Davis for 6abc.com. Students will end the last three days of the school year virtually as gasoline odors and cleanup efforts continue at and near the school. The school building is closed. A kindergarten graduation…
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Pennsylvania Agriculture Department to Lanternflies on the Move: ‘No Hitchhiking!’
In its strategy to slow the spotted lanternfly infestation, Pennsylvania is using a pesticide to deter the buggers from latching onto vehicles heading into the state, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. Crews armed with backpack sprayers and truck-mounted spray equipment are focusing on railways, interstates, and other transportation rights-of-way. The tactic is meant to kill lanternflies that attach vehicles leaving infested areas. The insecticide’s active ingredient, bifenthrin, is highly toxic to both…
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Pennsylvania Ranks in Top 10 States that Make Millennials Happy
Pennsylvania is one of the states in which millennials thrive, according to a new report by WalletHub. The Keystone State is ranked tenth on the 2021’s Best & Worst States for Millennials list. To determine the most livable places for millennials, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 34 key metrics divided into…
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Delaware County’s ‘Wyeth Country’ Donated to National Park
Painter Andrew Wyeth captured the beauty of hills, meadows, and wetlands along Brandywine Creek in Delaware County near the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. Now, 254 acres of that land, known as Beaver Valley, has been donated by the Conservation Fund to the First State National Historical Park, writes Frank Kummer for The Philadelphia inquirer. “The addition of…
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As Brood X Cicadas Emerge, Volunteers Hop to the Task of Tracking Locations
As Brood X cicadas emerge across Pennsylvania and the nation, thousands of volunteer trackers are ready to start mapping the rise, write Linda Poon and Marie Patino for Bloomberg. Citizen scientists will use the mobile app Cicada Safari to add geotagged photos and videos directly onto a live map. These data will be verified by…
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Delaware County Among 10 Best in Pennsylvania for Birdwatching
Delaware County is among the 10 best counties in Pennsylvania for birdwatching, according to eBird, the online database for bird observations. The site allows bird enthusiasts (and other volunteers) all around the globe to submit data on the birds they see at any location. Delaware County ranked fourth in the Keystone State based on the…
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Cicada-Mania: Tracking the Emergence on a Smartphone App
Tens of thousands of people are participating in an unprecedented crowdsourcing event this summer to track the largest emergence of cicada in the country, writes Meryl Kornfield for The Washington Post. Three cicada species (Brood X) burrowed underground for 17 years. They are appearing in the coming months. Fans are emerging with the cicadas, in…
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It’s Time for Delaware Countians to Make Their Gardens Grow
It’s turning green, yellow, purple and pink again in the gardens, reports Katherine Scott for 6abc.com. Many have started to prep the gardens as spring takes root. “When the sun is out, people are definitely out. They definitely have spring fever,” said co-owner Michael Taddeo of Taddeo’s Greenhouses in Havertown. There have been plenty of…
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What Do Brood X Cicadas Have to Do with Frank Sinatra?
When amateur musician Peter Block hears the churr of 17-year Brood X cicadas this summer, they will become a marker of the passage of time. In 2007, their last appearance, his now 32-year-old-daughter was 18 and graduating from high school. The time before that, in 1990, she was one year old. The memory of these milestones — and their unusual soundtrack — brought a creative spark. Block took that “pulsating drone that…
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Subaru Park: Keeping a Giant Cheesesteak’s Worth of Trash Out of Local Landfills
Subaru of America will be diverting trash from Subaru Park in Chester equal in weight to a Philadelphia cheesesteak that’s 19 miles high and 50 miles wide, writes John George for Philadelphia Business Journal. That’s a lot of trash. Philadelphia Union is partnering with Subaru to create the first “zero-landfill” stadium in Major League Soccer.…
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Earth Week at WCU: Sidewalk Chalk, Museum Exhibit, and More
The entire West Chester community is invited to Chalk the Walk today with the borough mayor on Earth Day, April 22 (rain date is April 23), in one of the many events West Chester University is hosting for Earth Week. The chalking event is part of an Earth Day Art Stroll and Digital Art Festival…
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From Trash to Cash: Media Teen Is Cleaning Up in Bid to Raise Funds for College
A Media teenager keenly interested in protecting the environment is collecting some trash to raise money for college, reports NBC10s Matt DeLucia. Matt Coulter has a GoFundMe page, “Matthew’s Journey In Sustainability,” seeking $10,000 to defray expenses for him to study Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. In exchange for a donation, Matt has…
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Brandywine Battlefield Property in Chadds Ford Bought by Conservation Group Promising to Protect the Land Forever
An historic Brandywine Battlefield property in Chadds Ford originally considered for private development, was acquired March 25 by North American Land Trust (NASLT) which intends to protect the land forever under a conservative easement. The 72-acre property on Oakland Road will be open to the public as Brinton Run Preserve. The NALT acquisition preserves diverse…
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Three Havertown Brothers Show It’s Possible to Create Affordable Zero Emission Buildings
Three brothers originally from Havertown have set out to create affordable buildings that generate their own energy and leave no carbon footprint, writes Russell Gold for The Wall Street Journal. Tim, Patrick and John are three principals at Onion Flats, LLC, a Philadelphia-based real estate development/design/build firm. Their latest project is Front Flats, a four-story…
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The Return of the Brood X Cicadas and Their 90 Decibel Chirping
It’s going to be a noisy Spring, writes Allie Miller for phillyvoice.com. Brood X, or Brood 10, cicadas will crawl out of their 17-year forest floor hibernation around the end of May into June, and start chirping. They’ll hang out above ground for five or six weeks, mate, lay new eggs and die. The mating…
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Washington Post: Proposed LNG Terminal Could Impact Chester Neighborhoods
A liquefied natural gas export terminal could be setting up shop on the Delaware River across from Chester and Tinicum Island, writes Will Englund for The Washington Post. New Fortress Energy wants to build the terminal on the Repauno plant site in Gibbstown, New Jersey. The terminal would receive liquefied natural gas from northeastern Pennsylvania…
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