PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has awarded more than $8 million to Philadelphia-area nonprofit organizations working to improve maternal and infant health for ...

WASHINGTON—The highly contagious H5N1 virus, commonly known as avian or bird flu, has been confirmed in two seabirds—both of them Antarctic skuas—on the Antarctic Peninsula. And on February 23, ...

At some point this year, borrowers will likely be required to start repaying their federal student loans for the first time in three years, as the pandemic-related pause on payments, interest accrual, ...

In a trend that risks watering down global conservation efforts, some governments and fishery management organizations are considering proposals to declare large areas of the ocean “conserved” even as ...

Colorado’s snow-capped peaks, alpine forests, mountain valleys, and rivers and streams are, like similar landscapes, invaluable. But that doesn’t mean one cannot assign a dollar value to the benefits ...

Since the passage of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, state policymakers have been working to capitalize on the historic ...

Open-ocean seabirds such as albatrosses and large petrels are highly vulnerable to capture in commercial fishing gear because they tend to follow and scavenge from fishing vessels and dive on baited ...

States earn revenue by investing surplus funds—and money held in reserves and special accounts—but these earnings typically have been a tiny source of state revenue. However, in recent years, after ...

Like most major American cities, Chicago and Washington, D.C., are struggling with a trio of real estate challenges: a housing shortage that has driven up rents, record rates of homelessness (in large ...

Methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone—the three Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use disorder (OUD)—are critical to curbing the opioid crisis and reducing overdose ...

As states move from studying generative artificial intelligence to actively deploying it, the benefits and risks of integrating this rapidly evolving technology into government operations are starting ...

The fate of many large landscapes and diverse, intact ecosystems across Alaska could soon be decided by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which will identify which ancestral lands will ...