All climate resources
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Grade A Choice?
Our meat choices have direct implications for the world's forests and climate.
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Logging and the Law
Illegal logging has significant environmental, economic, and societal costs. To address these impacts, implementation of the Lacey Act must be a priority.
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Cooler Smarter: Geek Out on the Data!
To figure out what parts of our lives have the greatest impact on global warming, our experts conducted two years of in-depth research using a computer model that tracked emissions in 500 separate spending categories.
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The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2011
An annual UCS report on the NRC's performance in ensuring nuclear power plant safety.
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Climate Change and Your Health: The Hidden Health Risks of Flooding in a Warming World
The Union of Concerned Scientists documents the costly, and often overlooked, health impacts of extreme precipitation and flooding, and identifies climate change as a growing risk factor for these extreme weather events.
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Recipes for Success
Over the last decade much of the land for vegetable oil production, particularly palm and soybean oil, has come at the expense of tropical forests.
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The Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act
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Increasing Public Understanding of Climate Risks and Choices
An interdisciplinary workshop to explore the underlying dynamics by which public opinion is formed and changes on climate change took place January 19 - 21, 2012, at the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus.
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Emergency Planning for Nuclear Disasters
If a nuclear power accident occurs in the U.S., are we ready?
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Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants
This is the first systematic assessment of both the effects of power plant cooling on water resources, and the quality of information available to help decision makers make smart energy choices.
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US Nuclear Power After Fukushima
No technology can be made perfectly safe, but the United States can and must do more to guard against accidents as well as the threat of terrorist attacks on reactors and spent fuel pools.
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Debunking Misinformation About Stolen Climate Emails
The international controversy over emails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has generated a lot of heat.