In 2023 alone, more than 2,300 people died in the United States directly from extreme heat. Expanding access to residential air conditioning could reduce heat-attributable deaths and adult emergency d...

This is not the first time Google has agreed to censor imagery at the behest of governments, but be warned: obfuscation at this broad level poses a direct threat to the public’s ability to monitor and...

It is up to all of us, through our government, to shape what A.I. becomes.

Sachi Barnaby is a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.

America’s affordability problem, for instance, is bigger than home prices and rents. How we build affects household costs like insurance and utilities.

This report serves as a landscape assessment and toolbox from which local governments can negotiate an informed position when it comes to the levers available to them and includes a first-of-its kind ...

As India expands its nuclear stockpile to an estimated 190 warheads and ramps up plutonium production with its new fast breeder reactor, major technological strides in MIRV-equipped Agni-V missiles, r...

This is bigger than a singular elimination of race and ethnicity questions. It could accelerate the second wave of widespread reductions to demographic data, leaving public health officials with even ...

In partnership with COMPASS Science Communication, FAS is offering a 7-week training to equip and empower wildfire experts to engage effectively with state and local media.

In partnership with COMPASS Science Communication, FAS is offering a 7-week training to equip and empower wildfire experts to engage effectively with state and local media.

This is bigger than a singular elimination of race and ethnicity questions. It could accelerate the second wave of widespread reductions to demographic data, leaving public health officials with even ...

FAS has partnered with ICLEI USA – the nation’s first and largest local government network dedicated to helping communities achieve their climate and sustainability goals – to launch the CRI Local Adv...

As we head into the fall and the end of the 119th session, we face significant S&T issues of concern. Here is what we’re tracking.

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · August 28 · 54m

As we head into the fall and the end of the 119th session, we face significant S&T issues of concern. Here is what we’re tracking.

Protecting the public from the tech industry's predatory business models and the next wave of AI harms is an enormous challenge, but we have the evidence that trying to build a healthier digital cultu...

In an ideal world, we would not have state or federal climate intervention research bans. We would have researchers and institutions that would not shy away from revealing the good, the bad, and the u...

Although there are no large-scale projects to alter the weather in the U.S., dozens of states are trying to outlaw it anyway — a trend fueled, in part, by unfounded ideas about “chemtrails.”

This analysis from EFI Foundation (EFIF) and the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) details changes in DOE’s workforce and spending.

"What excites me is that it's very tempting to be very discouraged, and say, ‘Oh, we've got these archaic institutions that are calcified and you could never change them.’ But I think we're in the mid...

"What excites me is that it's very tempting to be very discouraged, and say, ‘Oh, we've got these archaic institutions that are calcified and you could never change them.’ But I think we're in the mid...

After a year-long delay, this April, EPA released the latest air toxics data, which only included raw air data downloads. This year, for the first time in nearly 25 years, the air toxics data did not ...

It's only early July and already more than 3,000 all-time temperature records have fallen in the United States. And as America celebrated its 250th anniversary, over 185 million Americans – over half the population – were under an extreme heat alert. Fo...

Ask people what worries them most right now, and they’ll say the cost of living and their livelihoods, not climate change. But those concerns are not separate.

Ask people what worries them most right now, and they’ll say the cost of living and their livelihoods, not climate change. But those concerns are not separate.

If properly implemented, a comprehensive reform program to accomplish regulatory democracy that is people-centered and power-conscious could be essential for addressing complex policy changes such as ...

After a year-long delay, this April, EPA released the latest air toxics data, which only included raw air data downloads. This year, for the first time in nearly 25 years, the air toxics data did not ...

In the current environment of declining trust and magnifying strategic competition, banning debris-creating tests is a concrete step towards stability that favors interests of all states seeking to co...

For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.

In the current environment of declining trust and magnifying strategic competition, banning debris-creating tests is a concrete step towards stability that favors interests of all states seeking to co...

As federal data policy nerds, the question we get asked all the time is "How much data has the current administration terminated?"

America’s civil service, built for a bygone era, urgently needs bold, comprehensive reform to build a government capable of delivering for the 21st century.