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USA: Chasing Glaciers
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists A Runner’s Quest Through a Changing Landscape In 2022 I visited Glacier National Park for the...


Why Trust in Science Matters
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Last month, the Pew Research Center released a report on public trust in scientists–overall and,...


Fossil fuel industry’s presence at COP
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Five Ways the Fossil Fuel Industry Tries to Co-opt UN Climate COPs The fossil fuel industry’s...


Children and Climate Change
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists How Do You Talk to Children about Climate Change? One Book Has a Few Ideas Science communication is...


US: Sea Level Rise
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists How to Protect Coastal Infrastructure at Risk from Sea Level Rise A new UCS study released today,...


US: Fossil Fuel Greenwashing
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Taking a Lesson from the Tobacco Ad Ban to Shut Down Fossil Fuel Greenwashing When was the last...


USA: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists From Whale Oil to Wind Power: The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Disinformation Is an Ocean of Hypocrisy...


USA: PFAS regulations
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists After Decades of Disinformation, the US Finally Begins Regulating PFAS Chemicals In April 2024, the...


US: Climate Change Accountability
Source: UCS How International Courts Can Drive Climate Action Fossil fuel companies are well established as founts of disinformation,...


US: Banks and Fossil Fuel Industry
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Banks Continue to Prop Up the Fossil Fuel Industry The hypocrisy of the world’s biggest banks on...


Ask a Scientist
Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math Source: Union of Concerned Scientists When I was living in Cleveland in 1969, the shores of...


The Year in Corporate Disclosure and Disinformation 2023
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists If 2022 was the year that corporate climate-related financial disclosure jumped out of the...


Opinion: The Anthropocene as a Nuclear Age
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Humanity’s relationship to time is notoriously myopic. We tend to perceive things as permanent and...


US: Children and Pollution
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Children’s Developing Brains Need Protection from Pollutants While all of us are susceptible to the...


Water Management in the States
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists We Reviewed More Than 150 Papers on Water Management. Here’s What We Learned. In my previous life...


Opinion: Mobility Justice
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Decarbonizing Transportation Must Come with People-Powered Mobility Justice Over the last decade we...


The Infuriating Link Between Wildfires and Fossil Fuel Companies
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists New science from the Union of Concerned Scientists directly links coal, oil, and gas companies with...


Repurposing Cropland in California: A Solution for Everyone?
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists I may be a romantic, but I firmly believe that we can reimagine agriculture, rural disadvantaged...


Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD)
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists What Is Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) and What Is Its Connection to Wildfires? Climate change is...


REL Study Shows Wind and Solar Power Can Decarbonize US Power Sector with Minimal Land Use
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently published a study showing that wind and...

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