Biographical comedy-drama reminds us that everyone can make a difference By Alberto Sclaverano The 2000 movie Erin Brockovich  is based on a true story that happened in the early 1990s in California. An unemployed single mother with three children and a lot of money problems to care about, discovered one of greatest fraud against consumer’s rights and people’ health in recent US history. Brockovich brought to light what the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) did to the residents of the...

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Lessons Learned from the Lead-Acid Battery The atrocities of unregulated lead-acid battery recycling across Africa were recently investigated in a New York Times article. This account brought due attention to a pollution problem that has also resulted in a public health disaster here in the United States . Steps should be taken to clean up this industry, and lessons from this failure can help ensure better outcomes in other essential efforts, such as...

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists On December 15, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released its  quadrennial report  on World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. What follows is a lightly-adapted version of the contribution on climate disinformation I was invited and honored to make. It seems especially salient towards the end of 2025, in which the Trump administration has removed access  to climate information,  replaced it...