Infectious diseases can move fast, spreading from person to person within days or sometimes mere hours. To effectively identify and reduce the spread of communicable diseases and other health threats, ...

The Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland complex, spans 44 million acres across Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay—an area the size of the U.S. state of Missouri or the Brazilian state of ...

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Editor’s Note: This fact sheet was updated October 2024 to revise the recommendations based on the latest INC negotiations. Plastic pollution has become an urgent global challenge. Its exponential ...

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 ...

State automated savings programs are designed to help millions of private sector workers gain access to retirement savings at work. In the past five years, five states have launched such ...

State and territory broadband offices have dramatically increased in size over the past year as they deploy billions of dollars in economic recovery funds and start to manage a historic federal ...

For millennia, healthy, free-flowing rivers across the U.S. have helped people, wildlife, and habitats thrive. But today, too many of those rivers are blocked by dams or threatened by pollution, ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, federal law required most people taking methadone for opioid use disorder (OUD) to visit an opioid treatment program (OTP) daily or near daily to receive a single dose of ...

Estuaries, with their diverse habitats including salt marshes, forested tidal wetlands, and seagrass meadows, are among the most productive—and threatened—ecosystems on the planet. In Oregon, they ...

Racial and ethnic inequities in children’s oral health persist from coast to coast, according to data published by 22 states and analyzed by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The prevalence of treated and ...

Note: This data has been updated. To see the most recent data and analysis, visit Fiscal 50. In a remarkably fast recession turnaround, tax revenue in nearly half of states has not only recouped its ...