At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.

Assessment of more than 2,000 native species warns nearly one in five at high risk of deadly H5N1, including parrots, fur seals and quolls

The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects the nation’s forests from logging and other industry activities

Like the early days of the shark fin trade, the mostly unregulated market for dried fish swim bladders has exploded in popularity, devastating species around the world.

The last 18 months have been an absolute nightmare for U.S. ocean and conservation policy. But here are the top ten worst things (in no particular order) this administration has done to marine cons…

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

The Freedom Plane National Tour is a National Archives traveling exhibition bringing seven original Founding-era documents to eight U.S. cities in commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026....

Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct

The move ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could open up crucial habitats to drilling and mining.

This proposed rule is about one thing: the Trump administration’s hunger to exert control over the federal scientific enterprise and re-direct it toward their own political agenda. It's an attack on s...

A new approach to collecting, screening, and analyzing data to identify and categorize attacks on science

Former US Secretary of State says many countries are not dealing with climate change

The central issue in the Roundup case, filed by Missouri resident John Durnell, was who decides what should appear on a pesticide or insecticide label—and whether a federal law overrides state claims.

A confusing patchwork of state laws began to take shape hours after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. Here's where things stand now on the abortion issue.

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

Demonstrations against government corruption were sparked by a real estate development proposal by Jared Kushner

The head of Latin America’s top development bank has made a case to Pope Leo XIV about the potential of rare earth mining.

Last year, in my first blog post for UCS, I asked a question still on the minds of many Americans: "Do we still have a democracy?" Drawing on my previous work advocating for the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and my experience with the national NAACP as a policy analyst, I observed the relentless campaign

House and Senate lawmakers have introduced new competing proposals for Virginia’s biennial budget that starts on July 1—both of which unfortunately fall short when it comes to reining in the impacts o...