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Plastic waste in the ocean has continued to be a topic of interest in the United States and globally. This plastic study will bring experts together to study the United States contributions to global ...

As Congress continues to weigh hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to SNAP, local food banks are sounding the alarm that ...

Proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) could cause hungry New Yorkers all across the state to ...

Nearby Mount Rainier National Park also offers the easy 3.5-mile Naches Peak Loop, where the impressive Mount Rainier serves as a picture-perfect backdrop to the sub-alpine flower-filled meadows.

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the last full moon of the Northern Hemisphere's spring. It will be at its ...

During the research for a paper published April 9 in the Journal of Ornithology, Pruett-Jones, along with Jennifer Uehling, currently working on her Ph.D. at Cornell University, and Jason Tallant ...

2. In 2008, personality researchers Peter Rentfrow, Sam Gosling, and Jeff Potter constructed five different maps of the United States. Each map depicts gradations among the 50 states in terms of ...

The National Guard comprises 433,000 members in the 50 states, three territories and the District of Columbia. That represents 20% of the entire U.S. military at 4% of the defense budget.

The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000—but that hard-won achievement is now under threat. To contain the current outbreak, some states are following a new playbook to fight the infectious disease.