Scientists are learning that as sea-level rise accelerates due to climate change, these ghost forests are emerging more rapidly than ever before. | Delaware News Journal
Built on what used to be a network of islands in the Delaware River, the airport, a vital economic engine, is one of the city’s most vulnerable areas to the combined effects of higher seas and heavier storms | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Some of the oldest parts of Philadelphia have a long-buried past that is posing a present danger expected to get even worse in the future. | The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Shad are kind of like the canaries in the coal mine” | The Philadelphia Inquirer
So far this year, the park has unofficially drawn 2.8 million visitors. That’s roughly 700,000 more than in the same period last year, a 33 percent increase | The Philadelphia Inquirer
The river’s story is much more than whether it’s clean or dirty. Our water needs to be far more than clean. A healthy river is a dynamic ecosystem that provides, of course, the drinking water that we depend on, but also, a healthy habitat for all the river’s critters that depend on it as well. | Delaware Currents
Fish, perhaps more than any other animal in the watershed, are affected first by fluctuations in water quality. | The Philadelphia Inquirer
It was not a competition, but rather a journey — one not seen by the road, that had turtles and bald eagles along the way. | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Such is life out on Philadelphia’s big river: beautiful, industrial, resurgent, and at times, a little crude. | The Philadelphia Inquirer
“It don’t bother none of us. If I saw a dead body or something like that, I’d be worried” | The Philadelphia Inquirer