This week on The Allegheny Front, saving bats from white-nose syndrome and collisions with wind turbines. Go on a trip to a vernal pool, critical for frogs and salamanders. Pennsylvanians are waking up to the realities of climate change and an energy company has to restore streams it destroyed.
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How to Save Bats as Wind Energy Expands - The number of wind turbines is expected to quadruple 2050. How do we keep bats from getting killed?
Trying to Keep Bats Flying in the Face of an Epidemic - White-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats. Researchers are trying a novel way to control the fungus that causes it.
Study: Lyme Disease-Carrying Ticks Increasing in Pennsylvania - Looking at more than a century of tick samples, researchers say the reforesting of Pennsylvania has led to the increase of blacklegged ticks.
Poll: Most Pennsylvanians Think Climate Change is Major Public Health Risk - They are more likely than any time in the past decade to believe climate change is happening and that it's impacting their lives.
Everything You Need To Know About The Cicadas That Will Soon Swarm Southwest PA - It's about to get noisy. The latest brood of periodical cicadas is set to hit the region any day now.
DEP Orders Energy Transfer to Restore Streams it ‘illegally eliminated’ in Western Pa - Agency says the company filled in thousands of feet of streambed, altered stream length for 120 waterways during construction of Revolution pipeline.
Field Trip Offers Look at Creatures of the Night - Vernal pools are easily overlooked by humans. But for frogs, salamanders and other animals, these temporary ponds are crucial for their existence.
