Library advocates are asking state legislators to fully fund the Connecticut reciprocal borrowing program “borrowIT CT” after Gov. Ned Lamont proposed a 20% cut to the program’s budget. BorrowIT CT, ...

The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest and a potential tipping element in the Earth System, faces increasing pressures from deforestation and global warming. Understanding the individual and ...

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has issues a cease and desist order against the massive Cielo Vista Ranch and its miles-long, 8.5-foot high fence in the San Luis Valley. SAN ...

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United ...

Virginia lawmakers will face a record $3.2 billion increase in state funding for Medicaid over three years and an additional $964 million to support K-12 public education, as the state elects a new ...

Colorado lawmakers will need to slash roughly $1 billion from the state’s current budget to offset federal tax cuts passed under congressional Republicans’ sweeping policy bill, according to fiscal ...

This brief was originally published in December 2020 and updated in July 2025. In 2023, at a time when maternal mortality was declining worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the ...