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UCS President Gretchen Goldman holds a sign reading Stand up for Science at a march in NYC during Climate Week 2025

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November 13, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Is the Scientific Community Meeting This Moment?

Guest Commentary

A farmworker labors in a strawberry field as irrigation systems spray water around them in Ventura, CA. Drought conditions are visible in the background.

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October 16, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Do We Solve California’s Water Shortage Crisis?

Michelle Rama-Poccia
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host

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October 16, 2025

Pregúntale a un científico: ¿Cómo resolvemos la crisis de escasez de agua de California?

Michelle Rama-Poccia
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host

Voters in Stamford, CT, line up to vote early in 2024, at a polling station

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September 11, 2025

Ask an Expert: Heading into Election Season 2025, What Are the Obstacles to All Votes Being Counted?

Guest Commentary

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream

July 10, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Livestreaming 100 Hours of Weather and Climate Moved Thousands to Action

Michelle Rama-Poccia
Bilingual Writer and Podcast Host

protestors in front of the US Capitol on April 5, 2025

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April 10, 2025

Ask a Scientist: A Hundred Days of Harm—How the Trump Administration Is Eviscerating Science and What We Can Do About It

Seth Michaels
Senior Science Policy Writer

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January 14, 2025

Ask A Scientist: How Can Scientists Drive Change Through Climate Lawsuits?

Guest Commentary

USDA

May 14, 2024

Ask a Scientist: Stopping Big Ag from Hijacking US Farm and Food Policy

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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April 9, 2024

Ask an Expert: What to Expect this Oil Industry Proxy Season

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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March 12, 2024

Ask a Scientist: UCS Transportation Program Adds Equitable Mobility to Its Portfolio

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Daily Hampshire Gazette

January 16, 2024

Ask a Scientist: Can Election Science Ensure the Integrity of the 2024 Elections?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

plane with "scientific integrity" banner

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October 16, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Building on Advances in Scientific Integrity

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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August 10, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Will the New Farm Bill Transform the US Food System?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Photo of Oppenheimer in a fedora and suit

NBC News Studios

July 13, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Scientists and Arms Control from Oppenheimer to Today

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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June 14, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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May 16, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Dennis Schroeder/NREL

April 13, 2023

Ask a Scientist: The Electric Car and Power Grid’s Shared Future

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Dennis Schroeder/NREL

March 14, 2023

Ask a Scientist: New UCS Federal Scientist Survey Shows Real Progress

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Satelite view of the Livanova commercial sterilizer in Arvada, CO

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February 9, 2023

Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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January 12, 2023

Ask a Scientist: Confronting Putin’s Nuclear Threat

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland from Just Stop Oil addressing the public after throwing tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers (1888).

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December 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: In Moments of Despair, Climate Progress Can Keep Hope Alive

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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October 12, 2022

Ask a Scientist: What’s Up With the Attack on ESG Investing?

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

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September 8, 2022

Ask a Scientist: How to Thwart Threats to Democracy

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor

AP Photo/David Goldman

August 10, 2022

Ask a Scientist: ‘Danger Season’ Summers Disproportionately Harm Disadvantaged Communities

Elliott Negin
Former Contributor