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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

State policymakers are developing and employing a range of strategies to take full advantage of flexible federal pandemic funding ahead of upcoming deadlines. Lawmakers in Vermont and Mississippi, for ...

As extreme weather events become more intense and more common, states already face an estimated backlog of nearly $1 trillion for deferred maintenance and needed upgrades to public infrastructure. To ...

Many of the estuaries in the United States were once much larger than previously known, a critical finding as policymakers work to protect and restore these ecosystems. Estuaries—where a freshwater ...

At a time when the U.S. housing shortage has caused home prices to soar, removing the barriers that prevent more manufactured ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today praised the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s passage of the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Act. The bipartisan ...