If Congress didn’t believe habitat destruction and degradation constitute ‘harm’ under the statute, why would it require permits and plans to offset habitat loss?

A tick disease researcher explains the risks and how she avoids bringing home ticks from both work and walking her dog in the woods. Lint rollers, tick checks and some types of chemicals play a role.

When you breathe in wildfire smoke, harmful particles can travel deep into your body.

There's a roughly 90% chance of this El Niño becoming the strongest in recorded history.

Five figures that show how rising heat and rising electricity costs are colliding for US households 

Increasing flash flooding is exhausting communities as they’re hit again and again.

Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?

If you’ve ever witnessed a Pileated Woodpecker chiseling away at a tree trunk, you might have wondered if all that wood pecking was taking a toll on the tree. Pileated nest holes, after all, can...

Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?

When setting up for a beach day, I like to look for the most open area I can find, as do many other beachgoers. An ideal spot to sit has as few people as possible, no disturbances, no one running...

If finalized, a new federal rule would turn scientific grant-making upside down, push peer review to the side, and make every funding decision premised on whether it accords with the White House’s political priorities.

At UCS, we believe that increasing election data transparency is crucial to the study of elections and, more importantly, improving elections for every voter. However, the Trump administration is weaponizing the idea of election data transparency for its own authoritarian means: using it to target political opponents, creating federal lists of “eligible” voters to unconstitutionally