Tana Weingartner

1 day ago | wvxu.org | Tana Weingartner

The American Lung Association's 2025 "State of the Air" report names the Cincinnati metro area as the 14th worst in the nation for year-round particle pollution. That's a move up the list from 22nd last year. The report looks at air quality data from 2021 to 2023. "For folks in the Cincinnati metro area, the number of unhealthy ozone days per year is almost seven, and last year was four-and-a-half," says Luke Boucher, assistant VP for state public policy.

2 days ago | wosu.org | Tana Weingartner

There's hope for a rare bird that's been extinct in the wild for 40 years. Eggs from a pair of Guam kingfishers have been spotted on an atoll in the Pacific Ocean where scientists are hoping to reestablish the birds. The Guam kingfisher, or Sihek as it's called by the indigenous CHamoru people of Guam, was nearly wiped out by an invasive brown tree snake introduced accidentally by ships in the 1940s.

3 days ago | wvxu.org | Tana Weingartner

The lake at Winton Woods will look pretty different late this summer. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to let a lot of water out of the lake in order to make repairs to the dam and control tower. Project Manager Jeff Esterle tells WVXU a wall of the dam framing the water intake area has some damaged concrete that needs to be removed and the wall repaired. The intake screen area also needs concrete repairs. The Corps will lower the lake by at least 8 feet. "It's going to look really low.

3 days ago | wvxu.org | Tana Weingartner

Catholics across the Tri-State are joining in worldwide remembrances of Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday. He was 88. "As we commend a good and faithful servant to God, let us remember that Pope Francis proclaimed 2025 as a Jubilee Year of Hope — awakening us to Christ, who is alive and present in our midst," said the Most Reverend Robert G. Casey, Archbishop of Cincinnati, in a statement.

1 week ago | wvxu.org | Tana Weingartner

Great Parks of Hamilton County and The Nature Conservancy of Ohio are joining forces to "daylight" nearly two miles of streams on the site of a former golf course. The streams were channeled into culverts and buried more than 40 years ago during construction of the Shawnee Lookout Golf Course. The course closed in 2019. In total, more than 9,000 feet of streams were moved into underground culverts, both on the site of the former golf course and elsewhere throughout Shawnee Lookout park.