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Voting rights expert Dr. Michael Latner explains how science can keep us safe when casting our votes during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Disinformation is threatening to derail science-based responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's how to spot it and stop it.

Nobody should have to risk their life to vote.

Scientist and lawyer Dr. Adrienne Hollis connects the dots of the pandemic, and why a disproportionate number of Black and Brown people are dying.

COVID-19 has amplified the US electoral system's many problems. Will state governments do what's needed to ensure a free and fair 2020 election?

We explain and compare hybrids, plug-in hybrids, battery electrics, and fuel cell electric vehicles.

UCS issue brief explains the need and opportunity for researchers and research funders to build inclusive public participation into decisionmaking on solar geoengineering research.

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The US continues to keep intercontinental ballistic missiles on high alert—creating the risk of a mistaken nuclear war in response to a false warning.

US agriculture presents many obstacles for Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color. We review opportunities to begin overcoming the history of racist policies and exclusion.

Each year, nitrogen runoff from Midwestern farms produces a large "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, damaging fisheries and the people who make their living from them. Fortunately, there are solutions that can benefit both farmers and fishers.

Some monopoly utilities have found a way to exploit loopholes in the market rules and state regulation so that they can run expensive power plants all day long even while lower-cost resources are plentifully available on the open market.