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New York’s plan to make 50,000 buildings super-efficient

By Kriston Capps | Analysis, Climate Change

The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

person on top of crates of medical supplies

What the future may hold for the Strategic National Stockpile for Biodefense

By Dina Weilhammer, Thomas Bates | Analysis, Biosecurity, Explain This, Technology and Security

How the media can stop failing on climate change

By Emily Holden | Analysis, Climate Change

The Kingsbury was one of the Sri Lankan hotels and churches targeted by suicide bombers on April 21. Credit: AKS.9955 via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.

Sri Lanka blocked Facebook after the Easter bombings, but was social media really a problem?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by ©World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

What Russia thinks about North Korea’s nuclear weapons

By Anastasia Barannikova | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

How Earth Day became public relations day

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change

US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-proliferation Christopher A. Ford at the Conference on Disarmament.

Sidetrack or kickstart? How to respond to the US proposal on nuclear disarmament.

By Lyndon Burford, Oliver Meier, Nick Ritchie | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

anti-satellite missile launch

An anti-satellite test ban is urgently needed

By Subrata Ghoshroy | Analysis

A new, hopeful moment for US nuclear policy

By Joe Cirincione | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Trump administration is eager to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia. But why?

By Aileen Murphy, M.V. Ramana | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Cape Town aerial

Day Zero, 365 days later

By Christian Alexander | Analysis, Climate Change