The Philadelphia Water Department credits the improvements to the Flat Rock Dam Project. The project reconnected the Manayunk ...

It opened two centuries ago as the original home of The Franklin Institute. In 1938, it became a museum for Philadelphia’s history. And for eight decades, the neoclassical building at 15 S. Seventh St ...

Philadelphia experiences “almost all kinds of flooding,” said Abby Sullivan, chief resilience officer in the city’s Office of ...

Academy of Natural Sciences entomologist Greg Cowper says spotted lanternflies are primed for a population explosion.

For the third consecutive year, the City of Brotherly Love has been named the most walkable city to visit in America by USA ...

The granddaddy arrived in 1901, when the city sweated through a brutal 12-day stretch from June 25 to July 6. Official highs never dipped below 90° and topped out at 103°, part of a deadly East Coast ...

The terms help explain how language, identity, and culture shift over time, especially in a city like Philadelphia, where ...

A Philadelphia heat wave, the region’s first for 2025, hits this week. An Environmental Protection Agency report found that ...

Philadelphia is no stranger to extreme weather—from tornadoes in the summer that uproot trees to bomb cyclones in the winter that strand commuters on treacherous snowy roads. Of course, Philadelphia ...

A green burial entrepreneur from New Jersey plans to bring new life and natural burials to the overgrown 19th century cemetery.

Baldwin’s Book Barn in West Chester isn’t just another bookstore—it’s a bibliophile’s paradise that defies our digital age with unapologetic analog charm. This literary labyrinth houses over 300,000 ...

There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s plate tectonics. Thanks to this ongoing operation, we have mountains and oceans, terrifying earthquakes, incandescent volcanic eruptions, and ...