The movement of wind and water, the heat and light of the sun, the carbohydrates in plants, and the warmth in the Earth—all are energy sources that can supply our needs in a sustainable way. A variety ...
The UCS Science Fellows Program brings scientists and scholars to UCS to work on innovative and forward-looking projects. The UCS Science Fellows Program brings scientists and scholars to UCS to work ...
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 ...
Mike Jacobs is leading the Union of Concerned Scientists’s work on electricity markets and regulatory reform. He develops proposals in an effort to shape federal, regional and state electricity ...
The energy business is one of the largest industries in the world. Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. Unfortunately, ...
Roughly 9,500 nuclear weapons are hidden away in bunkers and missile siloes, stored in warehouses, at airfields and naval bases, and carried by dozens of submarines across the world. A single warhead ...
We need to act now. Climate change is one of the most challenging problems that humanity has ever faced. At stake are hundreds of millions of lives, innumerable species and ecosystems, the health and ...
Food production in the United States is at a crossroads. For decades, the public policies and big corporations that shape our food and agricultural system have pressed farmers to manage their land ...
Dave Cooke is a senior vehicles analyst in the Clean Transportation Program, specializing in both light- and heavy-duty fuel economy. He conducts research on fuel efficiency technologies and the ...