Earlier this summer, Louisiana nominated a portion of the Atchafalaya Basin—often referred to by coastal scientists and conservationists as “America’s wetland”—to become the country’s 31st site in the ...

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 ...

Collaboration is often at the forefront of scientific discovery and biomedical research has long benefited from this approach.

WASHINGTON—The highly contagious H5N1 virus, commonly known as avian or bird flu, has been confirmed in two seabirds—both of them Antarctic skuas—on the Antarctic Peninsula. And on February 23, ...

At some point this year, borrowers will likely be required to start repaying their federal student loans for the first time in three years, as the pandemic-related pause on payments, interest accrual, ...

Seagrasses and other underwater plants, known as submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), grow only in shallow estuarine waters rather than in deep water. Like plants on land, these marine flora—which ...

Sepsis, the body’s extreme and often deadly response to an infection, is a leading cause of death in hospitals, killing nearly 270,000 adults in the U.S. each year, and antibiotics play an essential ...

Open-ocean seabirds such as albatrosses and large petrels are highly vulnerable to capture in commercial fishing gear because they tend to follow and scavenge from fishing vessels and dive on baited ...

In a trend that risks watering down global conservation efforts, some governments and fishery management organizations are considering proposals to declare large areas of the ocean “conserved” even as ...

Colorado’s snow-capped peaks, alpine forests, mountain valleys, and rivers and streams are, like similar landscapes, invaluable. But that doesn’t mean one cannot assign a dollar value to the benefits ...

Since the passage of the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in 2021 and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, state policymakers have been working to capitalize on the historic ...

Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is known for its iconic endemic species—emperor, Adélie, chinstrap, and gentoo penguins; crabeater and leopard seals; and thousands more. Now you can add another to the ...