UCS Center for Science and Democracy Director Dr. Jennifer Jones joins Jess to discuss what the second Trump presidency means ...

The defense secretary job is as difficult as it is critical. Pete Hegseth, a television presenter and author, doesn’t have ...

The science is clear: climate change is happening. We are the cause. We need to act now. Table of Contents The science is clear: climate change is happening. We are the cause. We need to act now.

John Rogers is a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists with expertise in clean energy technologies and policies and a focus on solar, wind, and natural gas. He co-managed the ...

Nuclear weapons are still here—and they’re still an existential risk. Nine countries possess nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and ...

The US Supreme Court decided Honolulu's lawsuit seeking to hold Sunoco, Shell and ExxonMobil accountable for climate ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

New technologies are redefining how we move around—but are they all positive changes? In 1908, the first affordable, mass-produced automobile rolled off assembly lines: the Ford Model T. Its arrival ...

As a senior scientist with, director of, and now advisor to the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador has over four decades of experience working with ...

The US food system should be providing healthy, sustainably produced food for all. Instead, it’s damaging our health, our land and water, our communities, and farmers and food workers themselves. We ...

Adam Markham is deputy director of the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He helps lead UCS efforts to persuade policymakers to rapidly and effectively respond to the ...

The short answer is: because we are human beings who believe in justice, and we want our work to reflect that belief. So, as an organization that works for “a healthy planet and a safer world,” we ...