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![Volkswagen employee demonstrating disassembly of an electric car battery](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-04/ev-battery-disassembly-by-vw-employee.jpg?itok=lzreQ_ny)
All About EV Battery Recycling
Recycling could meet a measurable amount of demand for battery materials as more EVs come on the road.
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![photo of a tractor in a turned-over field pulling a trailer with two tanks of anhydrous ammonia fertilizer that is being sprayed on the field; farm buildings and silos are in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-12/ammonia%20fertilizer_scaled.png?itok=lTvBlASk)
What’s Wrong with Fossil Fuel–Based Fertilizer?
Massive overapplication of nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture damages soil, causes pollution, and contributes to climate change.
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![Protesters in Paris](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-10/loss-damage-climate-change.jpg?itok=BbKqZTBt)
What is Climate Loss and Damage?
Wealthy, polluting nations should pay for climate damages.
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![Dr. Conrad Examines Native Boy on Kwajalein](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-07/374-ANT-22-C-260.jpg?itok=hx71Pb8m)
What is Nuclear Testing?
A resumption would increase the risk of nuclear war.
Features
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![People near a flooded Capitol building.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/dc-flooding.jpg?itok=cFkYdYp0)
Looming Deadlines interactive map
An interactive map that guides users through the results of our 2024 Looming Deadlines report on sea level rise.
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Danger Season 2024
This tool, updated daily, shows how many people across the United States face risks right now from climate impacts.
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![2023 Science Defenders](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-12/Science%20Defenders%206.png?itok=8f7zcwyy)
2023 UCS Science Defenders
The 2023 UCS Science Defenders share a special commitment to leverage science to help their communities. We are so pleased to introduce them, and their great work.
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![Person with hat and glasses hoisting up a solar panel](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/ar23-cover-image-1500x900px.jpg?itok=ZTk3iQ_3)
2023 Annual Report
How did UCS perform over the last year?
Videos
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![an electric truck driven by Intelligent Labor, a MA-based moving company](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/intelligent-labor-video-screen-shot.jpg?itok=Cul4PtvN)
Electric Trucks Are a Win for Business and Climate
By transitioning to electric trucks, fleet operators will see their fuel costs fall.
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EV Benefits
EVs can yield consumers significant savings on refueling costs, they are low maintenance, and they're fun to drive.
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![A thumbnail for a video about wildfire risk and fossil fuel companies](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-05/fire-video-thumbnail.jpg?itok=afyjtHnm)
The Infuriating Link Between Wildfires and Fossil Fuel Companies
Groundbreaking science shows how oil and gas companies bear at least some responsibility for worsening forest fires.
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![A still from the video Federal Scientists Survey: Getting Science Back on Track in the Biden Administration (2023).](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-02/back-on-track-thumb.jpg?itok=hxhWl5we)
Federal Scientists Survey 2023
The latest Union of Concerned Scientists survey of federal scientists shows the powerful, positive effects of strengthening scientific integrity policies under President Biden.
Podcasts
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![This is Science with Jess Phoenix Episode 30: The Science of Violence](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-07/1500x900scienceofvio.jpg?itok=Cq8Mansg)
The Science of Violence
Jess talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California - Davis, about the science of political violence and what we can do to stop it.
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![This is Science with Jess Phoenix Episode 29: Water Water Every Where](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-07/1500x900-waterwater.jpg?itok=dpsB5Uwk)
Water, Water Every Where
A groundbreaking new report reveals the looming threats facing US coastlines from now through 2100. Experts Dr. Juan Declet-Barreto and Shana Udvardy cover what you need to know.
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![This is Science with Jess Phoenix Episode 29: Water Water Every Where](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-07/1500x900-waterwater.jpg?itok=dpsB5Uwk)
Water, Water Every Where
Dr. Juan Declet-Barreto and Shana Udvardy cover a groundbreaking new report reveals the looming threats facing United States coastlines from now through 2100.
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![This is Science with Jess Phoenix Episode 28: Strange New Worlds](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-06/1500x900-strangeneww.jpg?itok=5sSeGIkY)
Strange New Worlds
Jess talks with Dr. Dante Lauretta about collecting samples from the asteroid Bennu that are now helping us understand the origins of the universe.