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alien-looking exoplanet Kepler 22b

Did climate change destroy the aliens?

By Michael Byers, Kent A. Peacock | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

cross made of grass

Faith, farmers, and climate action

By Brian J. Barth | Analysis, Climate Change

map of projected flooded land in Miami

Activists: You can’t come to Miami without talking about climate change

By Nicole Javorsky | Analysis, Climate Change

A short and practical take on the INF: Small (and focused) is beautiful

By Robert J. Goldston | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

The wrong climate for a debate?

By Jesse Nichols | Analysis, Climate Change

Desalination: expensive, environmentally problematic, but increasingly necessary

By Jim Robbins | Analysis, Climate Change

Siegfried Hecker chats with some of the participants in the US-Russia Young Professionals Nuclear Forum

The future of global nuclear power through the eyes of young Russian and American professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Nuclear power and global climate change

By Ivan Andriushin, Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Patricia Schuster, Evgenii Varseev | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

What countries will be the most important in leading a significant expansion of global nuclear power—both from the perspective of the supplier and the user?

By Vladislav Kostikov, Anna Kudriavtseva, Cameron Tracy | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi at the Bushehr Nuclear Plant in 2015.

Should nuclear power be expanded significantly into developing countries?

By Yulia Katsenko, Oksana Mironchuk, Evgenii A. Veretennikov, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

What will be required for a significant expansion of global nuclear energy?

By Chantell Murphy, Vasily Safonov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 & 2 cooling towers and containment buildings.

Why nuclear power plants cost so much—and what can be done about it

By Daria Iurshina, Nikita Karpov, Marie Kirkegaard, Evgeny Semenov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow