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An Amazon data center sits next to a neighborhood in northern Virginia. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

June 8, 2026

5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole

Neha Gour, George Mason University; Ed Maibach, George Mason University, and Luis Ortiz, George Mason University

Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.

Global views on climate change are shifting, but there is still a strong progressive-conservative divide. Stephen Leonardi/Unsplash

September 14, 2021

Pew’s new global survey of climate change attitudes finds promising trends but deep divides

Kate T. Luong, George Mason University; Ed Maibach, George Mason University, and John Kotcher, George Mason University

Pew asked people in 17 countries how they felt about climate change. The survey found some optimism but also deep ideological divides, particularly in the United States.

Protestors gathered in D.C. on April 29 for People’s Climate March. 9602574@N02/flickr

May 31, 2017

Should the US stay in the Paris Agreement? A majority of Democrats and Republicans think so

Ed Maibach, George Mason University; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University, and Jennifer Marlon, Yale University

The White House is deciding whether or not to stay in the Paris climate agreement. But a large majority of Americans – including Trump voters – want the U.S. to participate and lead.

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