Summer 2025

The Outback sun is boring holes in us, but the Martu people—whose ancestors roamed these desert lands for more than 50,000 years—seem unbothered. Together with six Martu Indigenous Australians and two Pew colleagues, I’m walking through brittle brush and wildflowers on an August day in Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara, a new national park some 70 miles north of the tiny town of Wiluna, Western Australia, which sits more than 500 miles northeast of Perth.

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Manufactured homes may offer an answer to the current shortage in the U.S. housing market. An estimated nationwide shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes has pushed rents to all-time highs, leaving a record share of Americans spending more than 30% of their income on rent.

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In one of the world’s most urbanized coastal environments—the waters around Hong Kong—pressure from human activities is threatening the vulnerable Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, known locally as the Chinese white dolphin.

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After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians appears to have leveled off, at least temporarily, according to an extensive Pew Research Center survey.

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The people of Pabineau First Nation (PFN) have lived along the banks of the Nepisiguit River since time immemorial—as they say—in what is now the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

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