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September 12, 2024

Ask A Scientist: How Can Science and Data Inform Fairer, Freer Elections?

Why do some voters not vote? And why do some ballots not get counted? Liza Gordon-Rogers explores the not-so-simple answers.

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September 12, 2024

Hottest Summer on Record May Be Ending, but Fight to Protect Workers from Heat Is Far from Over

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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September 12, 2024

How Can We Defend Government Science from Political Interference?

Anita Desikan
Former Senior Analyst, Center for Science and Democracy

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August 13, 2024

Heat, Flooding, and Fire Overwhelming Halfway through 2024 Danger Season

Juan Declet-Barreto
Senior Social Scientist for Climate Vulnerability

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August 13, 2024

Can EV Batteries Be Used Again?

Jessica Dunn
Senior Analyst

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August 13, 2024

When Bad Ballot Designs Confuse Voters, Democracy Suffers. Science has Solutions.

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

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August 13, 2024

Ask A Scientist: What Energy Solutions to the Climate Crisis Are Within Reach?

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Derrick Z. Jackson

August 8, 2024

Care for Endangered Seabirds Continues Amid a 51-Year Legacy of Optimism

Derrick Z. Jackson
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August 8, 2024

What Research Tells Us about Political Violence

Chris Williams
Research Director

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August 7, 2024

Battleground Counties: New Interactive Map Highlights Racial Disparities in the 2020 Election

Liza Gordon-Rogers
Research Associate

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August 7, 2024

New Analysis of 2020 Election Data Sets the Stage for November Vote

Michael Latner
Senior Voting Rights Fellow

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August 5, 2024

Inside the IPCC 61st Plenary Meeting: Debates and Decisions Shaping Climate Policy

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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August 5, 2024

New England’s Offshore Wind Resource Is a Winter Powerhouse

Susan Muller
Senior Energy Analyst

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August 2, 2024

Our New Research Says the Solid Earth Can Help Protect the Antarctic Ice Sheet—Only if We Cut Emissions Now

Shaina Sadai
Hitz Fellow

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August 2, 2024

Hurricane Beryl’s Towering Texas Grid Impacts and Price Tag Highlight Massive Injustices

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

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August 1, 2024

Battery Minerals: A Common Fight Over Uncommon Things

David Watkins
Director of Government Affairs, Climate & Energy Program

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August 1, 2024

What Happens at Meetings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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July 31, 2024

Don’t Get It Twisted

Sital Sathia
Energy Justice Research Associate

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July 30, 2024

Three Takeaways from Twisters: Hillbillies, Science, and Solutions

Alicia Race
Climate Resilience Policy Advocate

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July 29, 2024

Reporting from Bulgaria on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

L. Delta Merner
Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation

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July 26, 2024

Climate Change Fuels Catastrophic Wildfires Across the Western U.S. and Canada

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

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July 26, 2024

Plenty of Heat and No AC for Olympians—Unless Your Country Can Afford to Bring Its Own

Brady Watson
Senior Campaign Coordinator

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July 25, 2024

Scientists Keep Measuring the Dead Zone. Let’s Fix the Fertilizer that Feeds It

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

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July 25, 2024

Twisters, and the Elephant in the Room

Kristy Dahl
Principal Climate Scientist

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July 24, 2024

Roundup: Supreme Courts Shifts More Power from Agency Experts to Judges

Liz Borkowski
Science Network Contributor

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July 24, 2024

China Suspended Nuclear Arms Control Talks With the US. Here’s Why.

Gregory Kulacki
East Asia Project Manager

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July 23, 2024

My Drama-Free EV Road Trip Through New York’s Wild North

Steven Higashide
Clean Transportation Program Director

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