Posts tagged with Environment

Last Updated: Feb. 10, 2017 · 6:22 p.m.

For 25 percent of the year so far, Pittsburgh’s air has been unsafe for people with asthma

Pennsylvania’s Clarion river transforms from most polluted river to river of the year

Pittsburgh-area lawmakers want answers on Allegheny County’s response to pollution at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works plant

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Breathing problems in children are being reported following a fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works

See the completed Straw Forward sculpture this week.

Public art made from 25,000 used straws will spotlight plastic waste in Pittsburgh

See the sculpture at Carnegie Science Center this winter.

Osher student Tom Eliseuson and Pitt undergrad Madison Holden examine a tree on the Cathedral Lawn this fall.

College life in Pittsburgh

Meet Pitt’s Loraxes, a student duo documenting more than 2,500 trees on campus

The university plans to increase its tree canopy 50 percent by 2030.

A spill of the cancer-causing chemical benzene, which originated at the U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, has been detected in a 300-mile stretch of the Ohio River

The Cathedral of Learning where University of Pittsburgh officials are waging their annual war against a massive influx of crows using audio recordings of birds of prey.

College life in Pittsburgh

Pitt is waging a war on crows with audio CDs and holiday laser lights

"Crows are like monkeys with wings” ... and they're invading Oakland.

70 years ago, deadly smog in Donora started a clean air movement

Get a glimpse of life in 1948 at The Donora Smog Museum.

Is air pollution at PNC Park throwing MLB umpires off their game?

According to the peer-reviewed study, short-term exposure to even low levels of carbon monoxide and airborne particulate pollution causes Major League Baseball umpires to make multiple mistakes calling balls and strikes.