4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (370+ words) The study of these interactions, and how they can accumulate, is known as cumulative impacts analysis. And the US government only recently began working to update its guidance about exposure to pollution based on cumulative impacts. Since then, the Union…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (754+ words) It can be difficult to grasp authoritarianism because it rarely arrives all at once. Instead, it often emerges through a series of actions that may seem disconnected on the surface: attacks on scientists who tell inconvenient truths, efforts to restrict…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (430+ words) This is the world of ‘Common Ground,’ a video game developed by a team of students at Harvey Mudd College in partnership with UCS, to explore just land transition, climate change, and the decisions involved in transitioning cropland in California’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (821+ words) A cumulative impacts approach to environmental protection can lead to better policies and better outcomes. But cumulative impacts analysis is not the destination—it’s the way we get from evidence to effective action. If we want cumulative impacts to change…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (824+ words) The list of folks who claim to care about protecting consumers from paying for costs caused by data centers is lengthy. Utilities. Data center companies. Politicians. Even the utility regulators with actual authority to set rates. What should we make…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (171+ words) Inaccurate data about electricity demand leads to poor planning of infrastructure expansion. Over-building leads to higher short-term costs and heat-trapping emissions, while under-building leads to reliability issues. Long-term, both lead to even more costs when the problems must inevitably be…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (398+ words) Climate change is adding pressure to an already precarious situation, threatening the livelihoods, ecosystems, and economy of the region. The events of 2026 show the harms that climate change is already inflicting and the threat that unchecked emissions pose to our…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (289+ words) Why would the US threaten scientists who study the safety of AI and social media at a time when their expertise is in high demand worldwide? According to the State Department, these policies protect Americans from “encroachments” that “undermine the…...