The Equation

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

Brandon Bell/Getty Images

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.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

Jules Barbati-Dajches

Analyst

Lisa Van Theemsche

Washington Representative II

Ed Lyman

Director, Nuclear Power Safety

See more authors

The latest

December 9, 2014

Groundbreaking Study Shows How Sustainable Farming Practices Can Improve Yields

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

December 9, 2014

Preventing Asthma: Searching "Upstream" for the Evidence

UCS Science Network

December 9, 2014

Agriculture + Ecology: No Matter What You Call It, the Science of “Agroecology” Adds Up

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

December 9, 2014

Nuclear Power Safety: Numbers and Context

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

December 5, 2014

Energy Efficiency in Florida: It’s Working Elsewhere, So Let’s Keep Not Doing It

John Rogers
Energy Campaign Analytic Lead

December 4, 2014

FOIAed Missile Defense Documents: Syring’s Huntsville Presentation

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

December 4, 2014

Why COP 20 Lima Matters to South American Countries

Roberto Mera
Former contributor

December 3, 2014

Canadian Unions to Bargain for Scientific Integrity Reform

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

December 2, 2014

The Clean Power Plan is a Climate Game Changer. Here are Seven Ways to Strengthen it.

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

December 2, 2014

The Detroit Power Outage: It's Not About the EPA or Fuel Supplies

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

December 2, 2014

Why Does Good Produce Cost So Much?

Lindsey Haynes-Maslow
Former contributor

December 2, 2014

What Happened at the LA Auto Show? Small SUVs, Hydrogen Cars, and 2015 Fuel Economy Gains

Don Anair
Deputy Director & Research Director, Clean Transportation

December 2, 2014

Interstellar: Climate Change and the Evolution of Cli-Fi Movies

Roberto Mera
Former contributor

December 2, 2014

Nuclear inSecurity

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

December 1, 2014

Amazon Deforestation in Brazil: New Numbers, Better Understanding

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor

December 1, 2014

EPA Relaxes the Leash on Independent Science Advisors

Michael Halpern
Former Contributor

December 1, 2014

Taking Nuclear Missiles off Hair-Trigger Alert

David Wright
Former Contributor

December 1, 2014

Could Lima Mark a Climate Turning Point? What to Look For

Ken Kimmell
Former President

December 1, 2014

Russia’s Small Maneuvering Satellites: Inspectors or ASATs?

Laura Grego
Research Director, Senior Scientist

November 26, 2014

A Science-Based Ozone Standard At Last? The Obama Administration Releases Long-Awaited Draft Rules

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

November 25, 2014

Simplified Drawings: Electrical Distribution Drawings

Dave Lochbaum
Former Contributor

November 24, 2014

The Proposed Bailout for Ohio's Coal Plants: A Bad Idea Any Way You Look at It

Sam Gomberg
Senior Analyst

November 24, 2014

The 2014 USCC Report: Still Sloppy After All These Years

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

November 24, 2014

Added Sugar? You’re Killing Me

Andrew Rosenberg
Former Contributor

Older posts Newer posts

Top reads

Explore our topics

Meet our bloggers

The latest