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Author, educator, and adventurer Sara Dykman biked the entire route of the migrating monarch butterfly, pedaling 10,201 miles from Mexico to Canada and back. She joins Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education to share her adventures and the monarch’s epic story.
Don’t panic, but snakes, salamanders, frogs, toads, and turtles are all around you, even in Philly’s most urbanized areas. Join naturalist, writer, and herper Billy Brown to learn how these surprisingly common animals live, how to find them, and– so...
In recent decades, red knot populations have plummeted from the overharvesting of horseshoe crabs, and the conservation community has sounded the alarm about this bird. Dr. Lawrence Niles, the world’s expert in untangling the knot’s story, shares the bird’s astonishing...
On the first Thursday of the new season, welcome the new season with Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education by meeting a variety of extraordinary creatures great and small that are signs of the spring. After Mike Weilbacher explains the equinox,...
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education is kicking off our Year of Restoration with the American chestnut. Once a foundational tree in Pennsylvania forests, it was wiped out when a devastating fungal disease killed the species in only a few...
Bicycle Film Festival is back in Philadelphia, happening virtually from February 11 - 22! BFF Philadelphia #2 presents an international selection of the most important short films from the BFF collection. A diverse curation of filmmaking styles: narratives, documentaries, international award-winning...
Philadelphia has ambitious plans to plant thousands of trees across the city, mitigating climate change while addressing environmental justice. Learn about this plan while discussing trees with a panel of experts. In addition, Mindy Maslin, leader of the Tree Tenders...
While so many of our place names– Wissahickon, Manayunk– are of Lenape origin, most of us know far too little about the region’s original people. During Native American Heritage Month, members of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania share their historic...
Based on his newest book “A World on the Wing,” author and researcher Scott Weidensaul takes you around the globe– with researchers in the lab probing the limits of what migrating birds can do, to the shores of the Yellow...
How are this year’s monarch’s doing? National monarch expert Dr. Chip Taylor, founder and director of Monarch Watch, the organization that has started placing monarch waystations across the country, joins us from his Kansas base to share the creature’s story...
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