Professor Jerry Jacka's chapter, “"Don't Look Down": Green Technologies, Climate Change, and Mining,” published in Anthropology and Climate Change from Transformations to Worldmaking, Routledge. In ...

In legal disputes, it is common for issues related to science and expertise to play a central role. Is an epidemiological study reliable? What does DNA evidence actually prove? How should contested ...

March 2 (Reuters) - A majority of the contributors to the federal judiciary's reference manual on scientific evidence accused court officials on Monday of letting partisan politics shape its latest ...

A US judicial body has revised an internal document to remove climate research. The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is a document used by judges when they have to oversee cases involving ...

For over 30 years, the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence has served as a go-to document judges can use when they deal with issues involving scientific testimony. The ...

Past Center surveys have found that Americans with higher levels of formal education are more likely to say human activity is a big cause of climate change. This pattern is driven by Democrats. In ...