Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are found throughout our natural and built environments, in countless consumer products, and more. Do you know where these chemicals are commonly found and how they can affect your health? Take this quiz to find out.
State and local public health officials need timely, accurate data from a wide range of sources—including hospitals, doctors’ offices, and clinical labs—to detect and effectively respond to disease outbreaks, contaminated food and water, and other threats.
Massachusetts’ approach to integrating opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment into primary care settings has been a model for the nation since 2007.1 Under the state’s nurse care manager (NCM) model, providers receive financial support to improve access by hiring dedicated nursing staff to assess and monitor patients and coordinate their care.
State public health officials need timely, comprehensive data to effectively detect and respond to the wide range of issues within their purview—from disease outbreaks and maternal mortality to contaminated food and water, opioid overdoses, and more.
For nearly 35 years, the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences has supported scientific breakthroughs and helped forge lasting connections among researchers in the United States and abroad. Now, a new grant initiative looks to expand this impact.
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.
This year, more than 2 million Americans will hear the words "you have cancer." That's 5,500 people each day—about one every 15 seconds. And as upsetting as that phrase might be, even more distressing is the word that often comes next: chemotherapy.
Our analysis also finds that plastic is interconnected with other global challenges, and that solving the plastic pollution problem will have broad implications for improving the health of people, the planet and the global economy. With the added urgency created by five more years of growing plastic pollution, we renew and amplify the call for ambitious action and transformative strategies to address not only plastic pollution but also the far-reaching consequences of the plastic system.
Electricity demand in the U.S. is soaring, and experts estimate that it will increase 25% by 2030 from 2023 levels. That’s putting further stress on an already-taxed power grid. Investing in new high-voltage transmission lines is a critical part of easing that strain, but those projects can take up to 10 years to complete, on average.
As the destruction and costs from weather- and climate-related disasters in the U.S. continued to rise in 2025—the Los Angeles wildfires alone caused over $60 billion in damage, the most expensive wildfire in U.S. history—more states are cultivating resilience expertise and investing in projects to reduce risk.
Land-use and permitting reforms have gained increased attention as policymakers throughout the country struggle with the nation’s housing shortage, which is estimated to be 4 million to 7 million homes. This shortage has pushed rents, housing prices, and homelessness to record levels in recent years, with costs to buy and rent much higher than historical norms.
For the first time in history, the world has formally agreed to protect nearly half the planet. In September 2025, the United Nations ratified the high seas treaty, officially known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement—a landmark global pact to safeguard the parts of the ocean that lie beyond any one country’s national jurisdiction.
