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The ocean plays an essential role in sustaining life on our planet. Covering nearly three-fourths of the globe, it is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s known species and many more yet to be ...

French Polynesian President Édouard Fritch recently committed to conserving 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of the ocean by creating a new large-scale marine protected area and ...

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 ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. The comprehensive plan comes as suicide deaths among Americans have reached a ...

Welcome to our lab and please don’t mind the fish smell. The basement of this building in Baltimore houses more aquariums than you could easily count, in a variety of sizes, and there’s also a pump ...

Gloria Arriagada is a member of the 2007 class of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences. She works as a researcher and associate professor at the Institute of Biomedical ...

Manufactured housing—the modern version of a mobile home—is an important, but underused, form of low-cost housing. Today, about 18 million people live in these homes, and most own rather than rent.

Since the start of the pandemic, Pew’s “After the Fact” podcast has explored COVID-19 and its impact. Listen to episodes that answer questions about the virus with public health experts and ...

In the waters off Sri Lanka, the number of sawfish, a rare and globally threatened group of marine rays, has declined so much that the animal is now considered “functionally extinct.” That finding, ...

Federal and state incentives, combined with changing consumer preferences, have helped to boost sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States at a time of growing concerns about climate change ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. As states move from studying generative artificial intelligence to ...