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 ...

Projects: Protecting Antarctica's Southern Ocean & Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Since 2021, H5N1 is thought to have killed millions of wild birds globally; marine mammals, such as sea lions and seals, ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article is a quarterly update to the state personal income indicator for Pew’s Fiscal 50 project. Total personal income climbed in every state during the second year of the ...

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 ...

Overview Research shows that the design, construction, and operation of public infrastructure—facilities, systems, and structures owned and operated by taxpayers, typically via the government, that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The strong relationship between housing and health has been well-established, a reality that can be critically important for those who are pregnant. Affordable, quality housing—and where it is located ...

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 ...