Ever wonder if agriculture and green energy can work together? The answer is yes, and Jess talks with UCS experts Dr. Angel Fernandez-Bou and Vivian Yang about farming and the future of energy in the ...

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’re working at the federal and state level to make sure robust, independent science informs decisions to build a healthier, safer, and more just society. Table of Contents We’re working at the ...

There are no winners in a nuclear war. There are no winners in a nuclear war. The notion that security can be attained through stockpiling more and more nuclear weapons is outdated. But thinking that ...

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 ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

Nuclear weapons are the most inhumane and devastating tools of war ever created. They're also tools of white supremacy. Table of Contents Nuclear weapons are the most inhumane and devastating tools of ...

Unproven, unaccountable, and unhelpful for reducing the nuclear threat. Six hours north of Anchorage, Alaska, lies a sprawling, snow-covered military base called Fort Greeley. Three thousand miles to ...

As important as it is to fight for science-based solutions, we can’t create and defend these solutions unless our democracy is working for all of us. That’s why we’re working to make our elections ...

Rachel Cleetus is the policy director with the Climate and Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She leads the program’s efforts in designing effective and equitable policies to address ...

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 ...