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Top Republican message-maker Frank Luntz calls for climate action

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change

globe and water

Green New Deal: More popular than free college tuition

By Zoya Teirstein | Analysis, Climate Change

eye of hurricane seen from space

Wettest 12 months in US history

By Paola Rosa-Aquino | Analysis, Climate Change

Rocket models are stuck in a bucket during a February protest action in Berlin against the imminent withdrawal of the INF disarmament agreement between Russia and the USA. Photo: Paul Zinken/dpa (Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A path toward renewing arms control

By Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

melting sea ice

Human history, in ice. And it’s melting away.

By Miyo McGinn | Analysis, Climate Change

Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”

By Kathleen M. Tucker, Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

An Extinction Rebellion protest in London earlier this year.

Philanthropists promise big money to grassroots climate activists

By Matthew Taylor | Analysis, Climate Change

Janne Nolan: from “fellowette” to godmother of the D.C. nuclear policy community

By Anne I. Harrington | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

sunllight in forest

Want to fight global warming? Just plant more trees, for starters.

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen | Analysis, Climate Change

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg thanks OPEC chief for “greatest threat” label

By Jonathan Watts | Analysis, Climate Change

The Rainbow 2 fire, burning near Delta Creek, Alaska, late last month. Photograph: Handout/Reuters

Baking Alaska: record heat spurs wildfires and “mass mortality events”

By Susie Cagle | Analysis, Climate Change

map of Europe heat wave 2019

Scientist: Temperature records haven’t just been broken—they have been obliterated

By Damian Carrington | Analysis, Climate Change