George Washington University divested from fossil fuels, but climate activists say the university must also be held accountable for operating an academic center that accepts fossil fuel funding and pushes a deregulatory agenda.

Whether through highly-coordinated attacks on federal tax credits or interventions in arcane state-level proceedings, or through public and covert efforts to spread disinformation, the beneficiaries of the Kochs’strategic funding are working to preserve the market demand for the refined petroleum products the Koch empire is selling.

Why humor is a great genre for engaging the public with climate change. 

Texas’ Governor Abbott and others should have the guts to set the record straight instead of following the tired diatribes employed by Big Oil, the Koch Brothers, and the many special interests aligned with the fossil fuel industry in their decades-long disinformation campaign aimed at keeping Americans confused about climate change.

Publicly, it calls for climate action. Privately, Google contributes to some of the most notorious climate-deniers in Washington. (Incidentally, the company removed “Don’t be evil” from its code of conduct in April 2018.)

A legal battle in the Pacific Northwest will test the ability of the American public to make fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages.

The plot just kept getting thicker. First, the culprit was cucumbers and tomatoes from Spain. Then it was bean sprouts from northern Germany. Then it wasn't.

A homespun Rhode Island destination gets an offshore wind farm—and, mostly, likes it. Will massive offshore wind parks follow, powering America’s Northeast?

Willingly or not, giant social-media platforms spread climate misinformation and undercut climate science.

What's gone wrong and what's going right in dealing with Ebola, in Africa and America

The separation of plutonium by civilian reprocessing has far exceeded plutonium use in breeder and light-water reactor fuel with the result being a global stockpile of over 300 tons of civilian but weapon-usable plutonium. By the International Atomic Energy Agency’s metric, this is enough for almost 40,000 Nagasaki bombs.

Youth demonstrations on climate change have spread around the world, inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg's weekly school strikes. Ahead of a global day of action on March 15, the teen leaders of the US strike movement explain what they're fighting for, how adults have let them down, and why they can't wait any longer to act.

Understanding evolution is critical to confronting the twenty-first century's microbiological challenges. We need to educate the next generation of scientists to give them the tools to develop novel treatments against antibiotic resistant bacteria, emerging viruses, and other deadly microbes. They need to understand how these microbes develop and change, which requires an understanding of evolution.

A Pugwash document concerning nuclear problems and tensions in the time of COVID-19. The document has been co-signed by an extensive list of Pugwash colleagues and personalities. 

The US public health system has serious vulnerabilities, and one major problem is identifying and responding to public health crimes.

Global warming skeptics have finally figured out why they can’t make any sense of the science: They’re not scientists.

Why the United States will move toward a renewables-dominated electrical system and away from nuclear power