As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best approach to maintain urban water quality?
Data center proposals are often local controversies with significant underlying principles at stake.
As the hot days of summer begin to settle in and the excitement of spring migration slows down, human celebrations are picking up. June is a month to celebrate freedom, a feeling that birds have...
La energía solar distribuida puede reducir el costo de las facturas de electricidad.
The recommendations would leave lower income disaster survivors with fewer resources to recover.
We’ve built a new system to help us monitor and explain what’s happening.
A healthy network of saline lakes in the Western United States is crucial to the survival and wellbeing of millions of waterbirds that depend on these ecosystems for nesting, breeding, refueling, and...
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
SALT LAKE CITY — Today, the National Audubon Society released the Great Salt Lake Birds and Habitat Assessment—a science-based analysis that integrates habitat, hydrology and climate modeling...
From the banks of Currituck Sound to extensive grassy marshes, old duck impoundments, and upland maritime forests, Pine Island is home to globally rare habitat that continues to remain protected...
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
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the temperature high, the risk rises even more.