Bartram’s officials said the storm caused damage and such high river flow rates that free boating offered for Saturday is cancelled.

He does whatever a spider can--and it turns out, spiders can do quite a lot.

The "human centrifuge" acclimated astronauts and Navy pilots to high G-forces.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report on tidal flooding for the U.S. and the news was not good for the New Jersey Shore.

Plus, what to do to soothe those itchy, itchy bites.

Nearly 40 percent of city residents refuse to drink water from their taps, saying it tastes bad, or even is bad for them. The belief is especially strong in the poorer parts of America’s poorest big city, where residents spend scarce dollars on the much more expensive option of bottled water.

The Delaware River was born before words, flowing namelessly through an unmapped world without factories or fishermen, to a sea no ship ever sailed upon. Over the next year, Inquirer journalists will explore the river and its watershed, focusing on its challenges and its promise.

The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, where the city gets its water, are much cleaner than they were in the years before the Clean Water Act of 1972. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems on the horizon.

Over the next year, journalists from the Philadelphia Inquirer will report on the Delaware river and watershed, the challenges it faces, and how it defines our history and the way we live today.

We asked about a dozen residents what they think of Philadelphia’s tap water.

Sex, drugs, and screaming bugs: for cicadas, zombies are real.

The sprawling Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery has long been a suspected source of polluted underground water. It’s not a threat to the city's drinking water — but it could be a threat to a big South Jersey water source.

Philadelphia Energy Solutions on Wednesday extended the termination date of about 950 refinery employees from July 12 to Aug. 25 to allow the company to better prepare the fire-damaged property for resale or a restart.