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A table for five: What to expect from each player at Ukraine peace talks

By Rose Gottemoeller | Nuclear Risk
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Murder, mayhem, and minerals: The price of the renewable energy revolution

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What’s causing the mysterious outbreak in Congo?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Report: Widespread land degradation impacting an area greater than Antarctica threatens global climate

By Jonathan Watts | Climate Change

The future of extraction, energy dominance, and federal lands under Trump

By Dustin Mulvaney | Climate Change

US farms are being battered by climate change. Trump wants to put a climate denier in charge of the USDA

By Georgina Gustin | Climate Change
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‘The process is broken’: Major oil producing countries kill UN plastics treaty over cap on production

By Joseph Winters | Climate Change

‘The air is killing us all’: What will it take to get India to tackle its perpetual pollution problem?

By Hannah Ellis-Petersen | Climate Change

A growing nuclear debate: The risk of calling everything a nuclear threat

By Chloe Shrager | Nuclear Weapons
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Advice for Thanksgiving 2024: How to deal with the climate change-denier at the table

By Richard C. J. Somerville | Climate Change, Opinion, Special Topics

The slippery challenge of defining climate adaptation

By Jake Bittle | Climate Change

After ITER: What China and others are doing in fusion. Interview with MIT’s Dennis Whyte

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

A person holds a large handful of e-waste up in front of their face above a large container of e-waste.

Murder, mayhem, and minerals: The price of the renewable energy revolution

By | Climate Change

The future of extraction, energy dominance, and federal lands under Trump

By Dustin Mulvaney | Climate Change

A table for five: What to expect from each player at Ukraine peace talks

By Rose Gottemoeller | Nuclear Risk

United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

What’s causing the mysterious outbreak in Congo?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

Report: Widespread land degradation impacting an area greater than Antarctica threatens global climate

By Jonathan Watts | Climate Change

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Rose Gottemoeller, the former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, and Manpreet Sethi, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies, join Bulletin leadership.

The Bulletin welcomes top nuclear security experts to its leadership

Bulletin editor-in-chief John Mecklin (left), Bulletin President and CEO Rachel Bronson (center), and CEO of Lightbridge Corporation Seth Grae (right) converse during the 2023 Doomsday Clock Leadership Luncheon. Photo by Jamie Christiani.

Bronson to step down as Bulletin president & CEO

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