This piece originally was published by InsideSources on June 11, 2026. People and businesses nationwide are reckoning with rapidly rising electricity costs. Last year, 80 million people struggled to afford their utility bills. At the same time, electricity demand is newly surging from the AI-driven buildout of massive data centers, threatening even higher electricity costs

Humanity has tackled and solved massive environmental challenges before.

Last year, in my first blog post for UCS, I asked a question still on the minds of many Americans: “Do we still have a democracy?” Drawing on my previous work advocating for the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and my experience with the national NAACP as a policy analyst, I observed the relentless campaign to

For years, Joshua Harkness and his family had seen American Woodcocks on their farm and forest property Perry Hill in Amenia, NY, but only at the tail-end of winter. 22926The woodcocks would arrive...

Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.

Peerrnt! The nasal cry is sharp enough to penetrate traffic noise on the streets below. Looking up from the sidewalk, we see the source: a pigeon-sized bird with long, angular wings, brown with a...

Birds aren’t the only migrators: Dozens of North American insect species also undertake long-distance journeys seasonally, including beetles, moths, and grasshoppers. Best known, and...

In a world that is becoming increasingly more digitalized, where people find joy in other people's experiences through a screen and connect to nature using the next trend that appears on our social...

Conservation researchers will go to great lengths to survey birds—getting up before dawn, driving hours on back roads, undertaking grueling hikes—all for only a brief snapshot of which species or...

The chase starts when the rice field still looks like a kaleidoscope of molten-silver puddles under a pitch-dark sky. Here in Jamundí, sugarcane fields and rice crops stretch to the horizon...

Good news: If you’re familiar with bird photography, then you already have many of the skills and equipment required to photograph bugs. While often overlooked, insects and other arthropods can...

Birding connects us to the world around us as we search for and observe Earth’s stunning biodiversity. But why stop at birds? Insects and other arthropods may have a creepy-crawly reputation, but...