Louisiana can leverage its strong energy expertise to expand its leadership in the supply chain for U.S. offshore wind development, according to a study by Greater New Orleans Inc., the Center for ...

Each new year presents a chance to explore potential challenges and emerging opportunities that could redefine biodiversity conservation. Recently, I worked with a team of 32 international scientists ...

In fiscal year 2024, inflation-adjusted tax revenue fell in 40 states compared with the previous year’s collections, marking the first consecutive years of decline for most states since the 2007-09 ...

Alcohol is the leading driver of substance use-related fatalities in America: Each year, frequent or excessive drinking causes approximately 178,000 deaths. 1 Excessive alcohol use is common in the ...

Manufactured housing—the modern version of a mobile home—is an important, but underused, form of low-cost housing. 1 Today, about 18 million people live in these homes, and most own rather than rent.

A proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is borne out in science, where a collective approach is often the best way to solve a difficult problem.

Philadelphia Youth Basketball (PYB), a 2019 Pew Fund for Health and Human Services grantee, uses basketball to help the city’s children and adolescents build the skills they need to be successful on ...

As families nationwide struggle with the cost of housing, large majorities of Americans across races and ethnicities support state and local policies that would permit construction of more diverse ...

The effort to secure the world’s first regional policy to curb a major source of microplastic pollution in Europe took a welcome step forward this week when the Council of the EU finalized its ...

With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...

A hundred years ago, when a mass market for consumer credit did not yet exist, underground purveyors of consumer credit began to emerge, and a variety of problems ensued. “Salary lenders” offered ...

Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) are named after Adélie Pepin, the wife of French explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont D’Urville, who discovered the birds on an expedition to Antarctica in 1840.