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Community members grieve the lives lost to flooding in Texas' Hill Country at a vigil.

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August 4, 2025

Despite Clear Preferences from Texas Hill Flood Survivors, Uncertainty Looms

Residents of Texas Hill Country testified about what recovery means to them. Who will listen?

Zoe Middleton
Associate Director of Just Climate Resilience

satellite photo of the continental United States with the rivers of the Mississippi and Missouri watershed highlighted; all the rivers eventually drain into the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

July 31, 2025

What Do Trump’s Attacks on NOAA Have to Do with the Gulf Dead Zone?

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

A person wipes sweat from their face with a cloth in Manhattan in July 2025, during a heat wave in which 'feels-like' temperatures were above 100 degrees.

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July 30, 2025

Hot Summer 2025 Could Be the Coolest for the Rest of Our Lives: 6 Things to Know

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

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December 19, 2014

For Some, Climate Change Already Means Adapting or Saying Goodbye

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December 19, 2014

8 Ways It's Been a Great Year for Renewable Energy

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

December 18, 2014

Governor Cuomo is Not a Scientist—So He Asked the Experts

Andrew Rosenberg
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December 18, 2014

What Was the Top #ScienceFail for 2014?

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

December 18, 2014

Interior Department Updates Scientific Integrity Policy and Creates Handbook

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

December 17, 2014

New Study Shows Electric Vehicles Can Have Significant Climate and Air Quality Benefits Compared to Gasoline Cars

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

December 17, 2014

Google and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan: Leaders and Fortune 500 Companies Unite in Support of Renewable Energy

Steve Clemmer
Director of Energy Research & Analysis

December 17, 2014

Then vs Now: Progress on Nuclear Weapons since the End of the Cold War

David Wright
Former Contributor

December 16, 2014

FDA Head Speaks Up for Science

Celia Wexler
Former contributor

December 16, 2014

Weighing In on Obesity—What BMI Can Tell You

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

December 16, 2014

Fuel Cells vs Plug-ins: Both are Winners

David Reichmuth
Senior Engineer, Clean Transportation Program

December 16, 2014

An Electrical Cable Fire at the Quad Cities Nuclear Plant

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

December 15, 2014

Who Else Stood Up for Science in 2014? Our Members’ Picks

Aaron Huertas
Former Contributor

December 15, 2014

Global Warming Fact: More than Half of All Industrial CO2 Pollution Has Been Emitted Since 1988

Peter Frumhoff
Former Director of Science and Policy and Chief Climate Scientist

December 15, 2014

Obama’s Nuclear Legacy

Stephen Young
Senior Washington Representative

December 12, 2014

6 Reasons I Am Optimistic COP 20 in Lima Will Help Avert the Climate Crisis

Angela Anderson
Former Contributor

December 12, 2014

Busting the Myth of “Job-Killing EPA Regulations”

Ken Kimmell
Former President

December 11, 2014

The NRC and the Value of Life—Revisited

David Wright
Former Contributor

December 11, 2014

Seeking Stories of Abuse of Open Records Laws

Michael Halpern
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December 11, 2014

5 Facts About Nissan's Battery Manufacturing Plant

Rachael Nealer
Former Contributor

December 11, 2014

Interfering in the Science: Congress Targets Sage Grouse Protections in Cromnibus Bill

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

December 11, 2014

Solar Power Soars to New Heights in California

Laura Wisland
Former Contributor

December 10, 2014

We’re Number One! – In What Our Land Can Do for the World’s Climate

Doug Boucher
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December 10, 2014

At COP 20 in Lima: The Buzz about Renewable Energy

Rachel Cleetus
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