Stat: 4 million to 7 million: The United States has a shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes. Story: For many Indigenous communities, the concept of land or home ownership can stand in opposition to ...

At their high-stakes annual negotiations on how to address climate change, world leaders made some progress but failed to agree on changes at a scale and pace needed to limit global temperature rise ...

A global community eager for positive news on the environment gained a bit of hope last week when the Group of 20 reiterated commitments to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement and the ...

After two years of historically high growth in fiscal 2021 and 2022, total inflation-adjusted state tax collections declined by 9.2% in fiscal 2023. And that trend continued for most states in fiscal ...

Public lands contain iconic landscapes that often become synonymous with a particular state, drawing locals and nonresidents alike to visit. In New Mexico, known as the “Land of Enchantment,” Otero ...

With more than 600 miles of shoreline on its Caribbean and Pacific coasts, Honduras is home to abundant mangrove forests and seagrass meadows—two types of coastal wetlands that provide enormous ...

Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...

Crucial protections for more than 28 million acres of wildlife habitat and traditional Tribal land in Alaska will remain—precluding large-scale development—thanks to a recent decision from the U.S.

In April, the international North Pacific Fisheries Commission adopted an interim harvest strategy for Pacific saury, a small pelagic species and an important source of food for tuna, sharks, and ...

Antibiotics have revolutionized modern medicine by making it possible to prevent and treat previously life-threatening infections, but their overuse and misuse can cause bacteria to mutate and develop ...

In 2018, as one of the youngest members of the Washington state House of Representatives (she was 38 at the time), Kristine Reeves began advocating for ways to help her generation of Americans do what ...

From diapers to day care and beyond, it’s getting more expensive to raise a family in the U.S. And just keeping up with daily costs makes saving for a rainy day or retirement all the harder. We speak ...