In 1931, the Legislature selected the cactus wren to be the official state bird of Arizona.

Here you will find a general overview of several important pieces of environmental legislation.

Neil talks with Jon about his love for science and technology, the difference between having scientists and politicians as guests on The Daily Show, the importance of scientific literacy, the intersection of science and public policy, and the cosmic connections that unite us all… because even New Jersey is made of star stuff.

The Mississippi Delta is experiencing historic flooding, tornadoes recently tore up towns in Alabama, and multiple blizzards buried the Northeastern U.S. last winter.

Actress, comedian, and political activist Janeane Garofalo joins the show to lay out the political theater as she sees it, and cedes no ground on whether scientific issues should ever be a topic of partisan debate.

In this lesson, students write, solve, and graph systems of linear equations to determine how long it takes to pay off a ticket and debate the fairest ways for cities to raise revenues without harming their poorest residents.

Play this game to find out how a law protects animals and plants.

In the Supplemental Humanities Bundle, students will explore how states are addressing the vaping crisis through legislation around the sale, purchase, and use of e-cigarettes.

If you’ve been feeling helpless, this episode gives you all the tools you need to understand and help our friend, the World Ocean.

Today on the show, Short Wave host Maddie Sofia and reporter Emily Kwong speak with AI policy analyst Mutale Nkonde about algorithmic bias — how facial recognition software can discriminate and reflect the biases of society.

A federal court recently ordered farmers to stop spraying one of the country’s most widely used herbicides, dicamba.

NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey helps parse the science behind a new set of government warnings about CBD.